NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover

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Mosaic of overlapping post-drive L-NavCam images - NASA/JPL-Caltech

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The yellow line shows the path of the drive on sol 4587

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post drive data from JPL

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Assembled from 15 overlapping Bayer reconstructed L-MastCam images. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

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The drive path is highlighted in yellow.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/UofA

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Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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NASA's Mars Exploration Program seeks to understand whether Mars was, is, or can be a habitable world. Missions like Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Science Laboratory and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, among many others, have provided important information in understanding of the habitability of Mars. This poster imagines a future day when we have achieved our vision of human exploration of Mars and takes a nostalgic look back at the great imagined milestones of Mars exploration that will someday be celebrated as “historic sites.”

Source https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/visions-of-the-future/

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The drive path is highlighted yellow

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The raw drive data is released by JPL shortly after each drive. this table is generated from that raw data. I've also added a few additional data points based on the data

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3 images from the rover's L-NavCam. NASA/JPL-Caltech

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the drive path is highlighted in yellow

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The images server is stuck, so had to go to plan B to get these images :)

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Screen capture

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Just move your phone around. Really cool!

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June 20, 2025 - Sol 4577

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A pair of end-of-drive NavCams show us the new workspace after a drive on sol 4575 (June 20, 2025)

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Assembled from 15 overlapping L-MastCam sub-frame Bayer reconstructed images from sol 4573. It's the rover's current workspace. Not sure how long they will stay here, but the journey to the next major science waypoint (Boxworks) to the south will continue soon.

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