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Curiosity driving on Mars from HiRISE

Curiosity driving on Mars from HiRISE
Curiosity driving on Mars from HiRISE NASA's Curiosity Mars rover appears as a dark speck in this view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. At the time this image was taken, Curiosity was driving. Trailing Curiosity are the rover's tracks, which can linger on the Martian surface for months before being erased by the wind. The tracks are evidence of multiple days of driving as Curiosity made its way to a region full of potential boxwork formations, believed to be the result of ancient groundwater in this region of Mount Sharp, a 5-kilometer-tall (3-mile-tall) mountain Curiosity has been ascending since 2014. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona