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Curiosity took 17 images in Gale Crater to create this mosaic making use of its mast-mounted Right Navigation Camera (Navcam). The rover took the images on August 28, 2023, Sol 3931. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing 3938 tasks.

Curiosity Right B Navigation Camera image acquired on Sol 3935, September 1, 2023.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Amelie Roberts, Graduate Student at Imperial College London, reports that the robot’s Mastcam has been busy producing two large, stereo mosaics of upper Gediz Vallis ridge and the nearby well-layered bedrock, which features enigmatic polygonal fractures.

“Curiosity will embark on its next drive along the layered sulfates, continuing the investigation on the cause of the alternating dark and light-toned banding,” Roberts notes.

Curiosity Right B Navigation Camera image acquired on Sol 3937, September 3, 2023.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Curiosity Right B Navigation Camera image acquired on Sol 3937, September 3, 2023.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Curiosity Front Hazard Avoidance Camera Left B image taken on Sol 3937, September 3, 2023.
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Curiosity Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) photo produced on Sol 3937, September 3, 2023.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS