Nasa’s Curiosity Rover from Mars has traveled more than 21.33 miles since it first landed on the red planet in 2012. That may not seem that far, but it is an impressive trip given the vehicle given the average of around 98 feet per hour and mission engineers have to send it at a distance of more than 140 million kilometers away.
The most recent journey of Curiosity started on February 2, when it started to be away from the Gediz Vallis Channel to a region with honeycomb -like Boxwork Formations Potential billions of years ago created by groundwater. On February 28 – the 4,466th Martian Day of Curiosity – another NASA mission succeeded in a job to break far above what is considered the first image of the robber to actively drive over the red planet.
Taken by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (Hirise) camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the black and white photo shows the abandoned Planetscape interrupted by a small, dark jet left by a weaving line of tire tracks. According to NASAThe path stretches approximately 1,050 feet back to map the estimated 11 discs of curiosity while it is on the way to the boxwork formations. Curiosity was to prepare a steep slope at the time of the latest satellite photo, of which NASA says it has been scaled since then.
“By comparing the time with the image of the Rover’s commands for the day, we can see that it was almost finished with a 69 -feet ride,” said Doug Ellison, Curiosity’s planning team Chief at NAS’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California.
Hirise is one of the six observational instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance orbiter that are used to document the surface of the planet in large details. The camera mainly produces black and white images with a colored strip that runs in the middle to guarantee optimum spatial resolution. The earlier Speaking curiosity in color in 2023.
NASA’s Rover makes the best out of the ground it covers on Mars. Earlier this month, researchers announced that sediment samples collected by curiosity and analyzed in his built-in mini-lab contained an important ingredient that was needed for life to ever exist on the planet. In March another study confirmed that the Rover had discovered the greatest organic molecules ever in what is probably a dried lake.
The Curiosity Mission team expects its next intended destination to reach within the following month, depending on the circumstances on Mars. As soon as it arrives, the most recent Tracks from Curiosity remain embedded on the site for a few months – until Martian Winden completely erases.
