The image marks what can be the first time that one of the mars orbiters of the agency Capture Le Rover Driving.
The curiosity of NASA Mars Rover has never been shy, having been seen in selfies and images taken in space. But on February 28 – the 466th Martian day, or soil, of the mission – curiosity was captured in what is considered the first orbital image of the rover halfway through the red planet.
Taken by the Hrier (Scientific experience of high -resolution imaging) Camera on board the NASA Mars recognition orbiter, the image shows curiosity as a dark speck at the front of a long track of traces of rover. Probably last for months before being erased by the wind, the tracks extend over about 1,050 feet (320 meters). They represent approximately 11 discs from February 2, while the curiosity transported at a top speed of 0.1 MPH (0.16 km / h) from Channel Gediz Vallis In the journey to its next scientific judgment: a region with potential box box Training, possibly carried out by billions of groundwater billions of years ago.
The speed with which the rover reaches the area depends on a certain number of factors, including the way in which its software sails on the surface and difficulty of the land to be climbed. NASA Laboratory Jet Propulsory Engineers in southern California, which lead the mission of Curiosity, work with scientists to plan the trek of every day.
“By comparing the time that Hrise brought the image to the rover’s command for the day, we can see that it was almost done with a 69 -foot trip,” said Doug Ellison, head of the curiosity planning team at JPL.
Designed to ensure the best spatial resolution, Hrise takes an image with the majority of the black and white scene and a band of color in the middle. While the camera has Color -captured curiosity Before, this time, the rover fell into the black and white part of the image.
In the new image, the tracks of curiosity lead to the basis of a steep slope. The rover has since gone this slope since then, and it should reach its new scientific location in about a month.
Curiosity Mars Rover of NASA was built in JPL, which is managed for the agency by Caltech in Pasadena, California. JPL manages both the Curiosity and Mars missions orbit recognition on behalf of the NASA scientific mission management in Washington as part of the agency’s March exploration program portfolio. The University of Arizona, in Tucson, operates Hrise, which was built by Bae Systems in Boulder, Colorado.
To find out more about the missions, visit:
science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity
science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-conconnesance-orbiter
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