This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows a sloping hillside within the “Murray Buttes” region on lower Mount Sharp. The rim of Gale Crater, where the rover has been active since landing in 2012, is visible in the distance, through the dusty haze.
The image was taken on Sept. 8, 2016, during the 1454th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity’s work on Mars.
Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates the rover’s Mastcam. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project’s Curiosity rover.
For more information about the Mars Science Laboratory mission and the mission’s Curiosity rover, visit https://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl.
Image Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS