View Down 'Hidden Valley' Ramp at 'Bonanza King' on Mars
The pale rocks in the foreground of this fisheye image from NASA's Curiosity
Mars rover include the "Bonanza King" target under consideration to become the
fourth rock drilled by the Mars Science Laboratory mission. No previous mission
has collected sample material from the interior of rocks on Mars. Curiosity
delivers the drilled rock powder into analytical laboratory instruments inside
the rover.
Curiosity's front Hazard Avoidance Camera (Hazcam), which has a very
wide-angle lens, recorded this view on Aug. 14, 2014, during the 719th Martian
day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars. The view faces southward, looking
down a ramp at the northeastern end of sandy-floored "Hidden Valley." Wheel
tracks show where Curiosity drove into the valley, and back out again, earlier
in August 2014. The largest of the individual flat rocks in the foreground are
a few inches (several centimeters) across. For scale, the rover's left front
wheel, visible at left, is 20 inches (0.5 meter) in diameter.
A map showing Hidden Valley is at
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.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui
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