The Interest Mars rover covers a great deal of ground for a robotic that just moves at a max speed of.1 miles per hour. A picture snapped just recently by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter supplies a quite cool visualization of what the rover has actually depended on up until now this year, revealing the tracks Curiosity left as it travelled from its previous science target– a location called the Gediz Vallis channel– to its next location. The rover itself is simply a small speck at the front of the approximately 1,050-foot-long path, and according to NASAthis breeze “is thought to be the very first orbital picture of the rover mid-drive throughout the Red Planet.”
The image was recorded on February 28 by the orbiter’s HiRISE (High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) video camera, and reveals Curiosity’s motion over 11 drives beginning at the start of that month. While a couple of weeks may appear like a very long time for tire tracks to stay in the dirt, this is regular for Mars. The tracks are”[l]ikely to last for months before being eliminated by wind,” NASA states. Interest is anticipated to reach its next science location, which is home to developments believed to have actually been produced long back by groundwater, in the coming weeks.
