This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 554 Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (February 26, 2014).

February 26, 2014

This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 554 Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (February 26, 2014).

Numbering of the dots along the line indicate the sol number of each drive. North is up. The scale bar is 1 kilometer (~0.62 mile). From Sol 553 to Sol 554, Curiosity had driven a straight line distance of about 3.90 feet (1.19 meters).

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

Credits

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

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