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Curiosity Front Hazcam Right B image acquired on Sol 2355, March 22, 2019.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2356 science tasks.

Meanwhile, a new Curiosity traverse map has been issued by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, showing the robot’s mobility through Sol 2354 (March 22).

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

Numbering of the dots along the line indicate the sol number of each drive. North is up. The scale bar is 1 kilometer (~0.62 mile).

From Sol 2352 to Sol 2354, Curiosity had driven a straight line distance of about 78.32 feet (23.87 meters), bringing the rover’s total odometry for the mission to 12.62 miles (20.32 kilometers).

The rover landed on Mars in August 2012.

The base image from the map is from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment Camera (HiRISE) in NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Curiosity Navcam Right B image taken on Sol 2355, March 22, 2019.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Curiosity Navcam Right B image taken on Sol 2355, March 22, 2019.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Curiosity Navcam Left B image acquired on Sol 2355, March 22, 2019.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech