NASA continues to share some fascinating photos of the Mars rover Curiosity. Among the latest:
-- An image taken from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that shows Curiosity's tracks from high above. According to NASA, "the image's color has been enhanced to show the surface details better."
![Curiosity from above. It's the small object to the right. The rover's tracks extend up and back to the left.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/96eb92a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/573x430+0+0/resize/880x660!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2012%2F09%2F06%2Fmarsairtracks-061d0655e7b046bb8cc7a40f91e2171bc3ca755b.jpg)
-- From the rover itself, a look back at the tracks it has made so far as it moves across the surface.
The images have, of course, traveled a long way to get here. As NASA says: "At their closest, Earth and Mars can be no less than 54 million km [34 million miles] apart, while at their most distant they are as much as 400 million km [249 million miles] apart."
Our other posts about Curiosity are collected here. And for more, the report from NPR's Joe Palca on "How This Mission To Mars Is Different From Others."
(H/T to Joe.)
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