PIA16562: At Edge of 'Yellowknife Bay,' Sol 130


At Edge of ‘Yellowknife Bay,’ Sol 130

Caption:

In a shallow depression called "Yellowknife Bay," the NASA Mars rover Curiosity drove to an edge of the feature during the 130th Martian day, or sol, of the mission (Dec. 17, 2012) and used its Navigation Camera to record this view of the ledge at the margin and a view across the "bay."

Background Info:

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The mission's Curiosity rover was designed, developed and assembled at JPL.

For more about NASA's Curiosity mission, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl , http://www.nasa.gov/mars , 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 Grayscale
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2012-12-21
Date in Caption 2012-12-17
Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16562
Identifier PIA16562