NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover seems as a darkish speck on this view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the Excessive-Decision Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) digital camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. On the time this picture was taken, Curiosity was driving. It is probably the primary time HiRISE has captured the rover whereas it was in movement. Trailing Curiosity are the rover’s tracks, which might linger on the Martian floor for months earlier than being erased by the wind.
The tracks are proof of a number of days of driving as Curiosity made its option to a area filled with potential boxwork formations, believed to be the results of historical groundwater on this area of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain Curiosity has been ascending since 2014.
When HiRISE takes a picture, the vast majority of the scene is in black-and-white, with a strip of colour down the center. Whereas HiRISE has captured Curiosity in colour earlier than, this time the rover occurred to fall throughout the black-and-white a part of the picture.
Determine A is a model of the picture the place the distinction has been enhanced to make the tracks stand out extra.
Determine B is similar contrast-enhanced model with a scale bar representing 25 meters (82 ft) added to the picture.
Curiosity was constructed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the mission on behalf of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) in Washington.
The College of Arizona, in Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was constructed by BAE Techniques in Boulder, Colorado. JPL manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for SMD.
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