Sols 4477-4478: Bumping Back to Business

A grayscale photo of a Martian landscape shows very rough, rocky, and cracked terrain extending from the foreground to a horizon line in the distance, where a pair of gently sloped, mounded hills rise up. The one on the left is much smaller and shorter than the one on the right, which is about as tall as a third of the image height, reaching the middle of the frame. In the far distance is a hazy stretch of dunes and hills, extending across the center of the image.

Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Monday, March 10, 2025 The Curiosity rover is winding between the spectacular Gould mesa and Texoli butte through beautifully layered terrain. The end-of-drive target from last week’s plan was a rock with a knobby/bumpy texture that appears … Continue reading Sols 4477-4478: Bumping Back to Business