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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday August 20 2015, @04:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the 50%-beyond-designed-mission-spec-is-excellent dept.

It's been three years since NASA's Curiosity rover, carrying the Mars Science Laboratory, made its bold skycrane-assisted landing on the surface of Mars.

Since then the rover has progressed across a wealth of varied and fascinating terrain. The southward looking panorama here has been stitched together from images taken back in April 2015 with the rover cameras - on Martian days (or sols) 952 and 953 after landing (a solar day on Mars is 24 hours and 39 minutes).

A series of beautiful views for Mars fans. The original file can be found in this 70MB jpg. And the original Press Release from NASA is also available.

The land forms are reminiscent of the Painted Desert in shape, if not in coloring.


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