Image: Curiosity’s First Wheel Tracks on Mars

by Nancy Atkinson on August 22, 2012

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The rover (and her driving team) has done it! Curiosity has taken a little jaunt inside Gale Crater and here is an image of the wheel tracks to prove it! This image was taken by the right Navigation Camera on the rover Curiosity on Sol 16 (2012-08-22 15:00:53 UTC).

UPDATE: See our new article from today’s press briefing with more images here.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today's Senior Editor. She also is the host of the NASA Lunar Science Institute podcast and works with the Astronomy Cast and 365 Days of Astronomy podcasts. Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador.

  • Aqua4U

    I always stop in to visit UT first… even before visiting the NASA sites, because you guys are SO on it! HeyUP!

  • leohaywire

    Looks like a Bootprint!!! A hoax me thinks? LOL

  • bugzzz

    Who’s the moron methodically going through every Curiosity post thumbing down all comments? NASA’s jealous younger brother? This Mars stuff is stellar!!!

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