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Curiosity Left Navigation Camera took this image on Sol 3724. Image shows the rock, “Cacao” and the shadow of the unstowed arm in the afternoon light. Is it a meteorite?
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is wheeling about finding and photographing some interesting features, including “foreign stones,” reports Ashley Stroupe, a mission operations engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A recent photo taken by the robot shows a rock about which Mars researchers are intrigued.

The rock Curiosity parked in front of is one of several very dark-colored blocks in this area which seem to have come from elsewhere, and are dubbed “foreign stones.”

“Our investigations will help determine if this is a block from elsewhere on Mars that just has been weathered in an interesting way or if it is a meteorite,” Stroupe notes.

Curiosity Mast Camera Left image taken on Sol 3724, January 27,2023.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Curiosity Mast Camera Right image taken on Sol 3724, Janaury 27, 2023.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Meanwhile, Curiosity is taking a look at some other interesting terrain, as well as a look up into the sky of Mars to scan wispy clouds floating by.

At the moment, the Curiosity Mars rover is now ending Sol 3728 tasks.

Curiosity Right B Navigation Camera photo acquired on Sol 3728, January 31, 2023.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Curiosity Right B Navigation Camera photo acquired on Sol 3728, January 31, 2023.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech