Sunrise at Mount Sharp on Mars | NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover

Sunrise at Mount Sharp on Mars | NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover

Panaroma and mosaic of 16 pictures taken by MastCam Left (34mm focal length) aboard NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover on Sol 3481 (May 22, 2022) at 8:05 am local Martian time.

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Curiosity Rover Update:

"Our intrepid rover engineers again successfully navigated Curiosity a little higher up Mount Sharp (~5 m) and ~40 m on the ground, away from our previous location. The terrain beneath the rover included striated, dusty bedrock and sand ripples with coarse lag deposits."

"The environmental scientists planned several observations to continue monitoring changes in atmospheric conditions and the current dust storm within Gale crater. These included: Navcam line of sight images, a large dust devil survey, suprahorizon movies, a dust devil movie, and a zenith movie; and Mastcam basic and full tau observations."

Caption Credit: Lucy Thompson, Planetary Geologist, University of New Brunswick

Release Date: May 26, 2022

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit mars.nasa.gov

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life. 

Launch: November 6, 2011

Landing: August 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Thomas Appéré

Image Date: May 22, 2022

Release Date: May 30, 2022

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