This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 559 Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (March 3, 2014).

March 03, 2014

This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 559 Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (March 3, 2014).

Numbering of the dots along the line indicate the sol number of each drive. North is up. From Sol 555 to Sol 559, Curiosity had driven a straight line distance of about 183.04 feet (55.79 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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