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Curiosity: Wheel Scuff Mark at 'Rocknest'

Posted on Saturday, October 6, 2012
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Curiosity: Wheel Scuff Mark at 'Rocknest'
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Uploader comment: NASA's Mars rover cut a wheel scuff mark into a wind-formed ripple at the "Rocknest" site to give researchers a better opportunity to examine the particle-size distribution of the material forming the ripple. The rover's right Navigation camera took this image of the scuff mark on the mission's 57th Martian day, or sol (October 3, 2012), the same sol that a wheel created the mark.


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