NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Departs Vera Rubin Ridge (360 View)

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover has already descended from Vera Rubin Ridge, a region of Mount Sharp that it has been exploring for more than a year. But before it left, the rover took a 360-degree panorama of the area depicting its last drill hole on the ridge (at a location called "Rock Hall"), a new region it will spent the next year exploring (the clay unit) and its last view of Gale Crater's floor until it starts ascending in elevation again.

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If your browser does not support 360, a static view of this same panorama image is available at mars.nasa.gov/resources/22288 For more information about the mission, visit https://mars.nasa.gov/msl.