Rising above the present location of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, higher than
any mountain in the 48 contiguous states of the United States, Mount Sharp is
featured in new imagery from the rover.
A pair of mosaics assembled from dozens of telephoto images shows Mount Sharp
in dramatic detail. The component images were taken by the
100-millimeter-focal-length telephoto lens camera mounted on the right side of
Curiosity's remote sensing mast, during the 45th Martian day of the rover's
mission on Mars (Sept. 20, 2012).
This layered mound, also called Aeolis Mons, in the center of Gale Crater
rises more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the crater floor location of
Curiosity. Lower slopes of Mount Sharp remain a destination for the mission,
though the rover will first spend many more weeks around a location called
"Yellowknife Bay," where it has found evidence of a past environment favorable
for microbial life.
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