NASA orbiter spots Curiosity rover making tracks to next science stop

Curiosity is Making Tracks Across the Surface of Mars

Images of Mars never cease to amaze. This latest image of NASA’s Curiosity Rover captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the rover as a dark speck and the end of a long trail of tracks. It was rattling along at a speed of 0.16 km/h across the Gediz Vallis Channel and was headed towards a region that could have been formed by water billions of years ago. The weather on Mars won’t allow the tracks to persist though so they are likely to …

Cool space image shows route of Mars rover as it treks across the Red Planet

The Curiosity rover is heading to a region containing formations that were possibly made by groundwater billions of years ago

Tracks Spotted Across the Martian Landscape by NASA Orbiter Reveal a Red Planet “Curiosity”

New images captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) reveal a very unusual sight: an orbital view of the trackway left in the Martian sand by one of the planet’s robotic explorers. The photographs are believed to mark the first known imagery documenting the transit of the intrepid Curiosity rover by one of NASA’s Mars orbiters. The images were obtained in late February as Curiosity trekked along toward its next scientific investigatio…

NASA orbiter reveals Curiosity rover making tracks across Mars

While Curiosity is no stranger to being photographed, this is the first orbital image of the Rover mid-drive.

Spacecraft spots NASA rover driving through Mars' desert

A Martian spacecraft spied a Martian rover rumbling through the red desert.The new image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — which has orbited Mars since 2006 — shows the space agency's car-sized Curiosity rover traversing the terrain below as it scales the planet's 3.4-mile-high Mount Sharp."The image marks what may be the first time one of the agency’s Mars orbiters has captured the rover driving," NASA said in a statement.The Mar…

Mars orbiter snaps 1st image of Curiosity rover driving on the Red Planet

A NASA Mars orbiter recently spotted the Curiosity rover driving across the Red Planet's surface, capturing an unprecedented off-Earth action shot.