Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:34:17 GMT | By MSN News
Curiosity sends more images of Mars

Details of Mount Sharp

This image taken by the MastCam highlights the interesting geology of Mount Sharp, a mountain inside Gale Crater, where the rover landed (© Nasa/JPL-Caltech)
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  • This image is from a series that were taken to calibrate the 34-millimetre Mast Camera on the Curiosity rover and looks south-southwest from the rover's landing site at the base of Mount Sharp (© Nasa/JPL-Caltech)
  • A close-up of Mount Sharp taken using to 100-mm Mast Camera (© Nasa/JPL-Caltech)
  • This colour panorama shows a view of Curiosity's landing site, including the highest part of Mount Sharp visible to the rover (© Nasa/JPL-Caltech)
  • The image shows the base of Mount Sharp, the rover's eventual science destination. (© Nasa/JPL-Caltech)
  • This image taken by the MastCam highlights the interesting geology of Mount Sharp, a mountain inside Gale Crater, where the rover landed (© Nasa/JPL-Caltech)
  • This image is a composite of photographs taken by Curiosity's front hazard avoidance cameras and shows Mount Sharp in the background (© Nasa/JPL-Caltech)
  • This photograph, from the rover's navigation camera, shows the track mark from this second drive (© Nasa/JPL-Caltech)
  • These rocks were exposed during Curiousity's descent and the rover then shot the area with a laser 50 times to get readings on the rock (© Nasa/JPL-Caltech)
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This image taken by the MastCam highlights the interesting geology of Mount Sharp, a mountain inside Gale Crater, where the rover landed. Prior to the rover's landing on Mars, observations from orbiting satellites indicated that the lower reaches of Mount Sharp, below the line of white dots, are composed of relatively flat-lying strata that bear hydrated minerals.

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