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NASA’s Mars orbiter snapped this image of Curiosity trucking along down at the surface


In what's thought to be 'the first orbital image of the rover mid-drive,' Curiosity can be see making the journey to its next science destination on Mars.

The Curiosity Mars rover covers a lot of ground for a robot that only moves at a max speed of .1 mph. A photo snapped recently by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provides a pretty cool visualization of what the rover has been up to so far this year, showing the tracks Curiosity left behind as it journeyed from its previous science target — an area called the Gediz Vallis channel — to its next destination. Curiosity is expected to reach its next science destination, which is home to formations thought to have been created long ago by groundwater, in the coming weeks.

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