Our last drive was about 85 m away from Waypoint 1 towards the SW. As we progress one of the new ways we image the landscape is with the MAHLI microimager. Normally we use this for close up views of rocks and checking the different instruments on Curiosity. However, we can also use it to take pictures from the arm’s stowed position, and we are currently doing this on most sols. The images comes back at crazy angles to the horizon, but when rotated give an excellent view. The image here shows the dust that we now associate with the crater rim (which is about 2 km above the crater floor) and the light and dark lithologies that we are analysing on Curiosity’s path).
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