This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 696 Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (July 22, 2014).

July 22, 2014

This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 696 Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (July 22, 2014).

Numbering of the dots along the line indicate the sol number of each drive. North is up. From Sol 695 to Sol 696, Curiosity had driven a straight line distance of about 65.29 feet (19.9 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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