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Curiosity Rover's Location for Sol 2616

December 16, 2019

This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 2616 Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (December 16, 2019).

Numbering of the dots along the line indicate the sol number of each drive. North is up. From Sol 2613 to Sol 2616, Curiosity had driven a straight line distance of about 72.51 feet (22.1 meters). Since touching down in Bradbury Landing in August 2012, Curiosity has driven 13.44 miles (21.64 kilometers).

The base image from the map is from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment Camera (HiRISE) in NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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