PIA19386: Scene From 'Artist's Drive' on Mars


Scene From ‘Artist’s Drive’ on Mars

Caption:

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Navigation Camera (Navcam) to capture this view on April 11, 2015, during the 952nd Martian day, or sol of the rover's work on Mars. The rover's location was in a valley called "Artist's Drive" on the route up Mount Sharp.

The view spans from east, at left, to southwest, at right. Upper Mount Sharp appears on the horizon at left.

Background Info:

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover and the rover's Navcam.

More information about Curiosity is online at http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ .

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target Mars
System
Target Type Planet
Mission Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Instrument Host Curiosity Rover
Host Type Rover
Instrument Navigation Camera (Navcam)
Detector
Extra Keywords Artwork, Grayscale
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2015-04-13
Date in Caption 2015-04-11
Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19386
Identifier PIA19386