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Curiosity's Traverse Map Through Sol 651

This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 651 Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (June 6, 2014).

June 06, 2014

This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 651 Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (June 6, 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 649 to Sol 651, Curiosity had driven a straight line distance of about 99.91 feet (30.453 meters).

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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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

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