Curiosity has climbed 999.15m up Mount Sharp, the next drive should reach over one kilometer
Here's its new workspace after the drive. This is a mosaic of 15 overlapping mast camera images that were deBayered prior to assembly.
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Front HazCam view (after the drive)
Always weird seeing these photos and remembering it's near instant death if standing there.
360 degree NavCam panorama assembled from 31 overlapping images. Note that several of the images have data drop out (small dark rectangles, but one can still see the terrain around the rover
What's with the censored areas?
I'm not sure. In the case of Perseverance, I know that they block out those goddamned instances when the sandworms photobomb the panoramas, but I don't blame JPL for that - those things are repulsive.
We do know that Curiosity has some overly aggressive tendencies when it comes to small furry mammals. I hope the rover AI hasn't gone on another rampage and tried to hide the evidence again. It takes months to remove the organic matter contamination from the instruments.
Map with 500 m scale, shows the path of the rover sol 4994 as it slowly climbs to reach its next science target
Map with 50 m scale, shows the path of the drive to the south on sol 4994
Drive details assembled from NASA/JPL data released shortly after each drive
Awww, it's trying to climb home 😭