Curiosity Rover mission update for Sols 4481-4483 - Humber Pie:

https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4481-4483-humber-pie/

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Curiosity rover used its arm mounted MAHLI camera to capture close up images of one of the knobby/bumpy rocks in its workspace on sol 4479. Attached is an animated GIF using three focus stacked images that were acquired by moving the rover's robotic arm between images. The camera standoff was 25/30cm from the target which provides us with an scene width of ~15cm. Credits:NASA/JPL-Caltech

Curiosity Rover: A 'Bump' on sol 4478 'to get the rover in an ideal position to analyze and characterize a rock with a knobby/bumpy texture that appears quite different from the typical surrounding bedrock'. Post drive NavCam, Drive data & Traverse map (with scale). Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Curiosity Rover mission update for Sols 4477-4478

Bumping Back to Business:

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https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4477-4478-bumping-back-to-business/

Substituted image - Sol 4477 MAHLI mosaic. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Curiosity Rover mission update for Sols 4475-4476

Even the Best-Laid Plans:

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https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4475-4476-even-the-best-laid-plans/

Curiosity's latest workspace imaged on mission sol 4471 (March 5, 2025 ) after a drive of 19.6 meters (64.4 ft). This composite image is roughly assembled from 15 overlapping L-MastCam subframe images, the images were Bayer reconstructed prior to assembly.
Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

Curiosity Rover's latest workspace after a drive to the south of ~37 meters (120 ft) during Sol 4469. By the end the drive it had climbed nearly 4 meters (13 ft). The detailed data from the drive are attached as is a screenshot from the mission traverse map (with scale) and a post-drive L-NavCam image featuring the robotic arm workspace.

Curiosity's latest workspace imaged on mission sol 4464 (February 25, 2025 ) after a drive of ~26 meters (85 feet). . The workspace covers an area about 2 meters (~6.5 feet) across, and shows details within the workspace accessible to the instruments and tools on the rover's 2 meter-long robotic arm. Also attached is the drive data and an updated map with scale.
Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

Meanwhile on Mars - Curiosity rover continues its traverse towards the west-southwest with another drive of ~35 meters. Attached is a post-drive left side navigation camera image of its new workspace, the drive data and a screen capture of the mission map (with scalebar), the sol 4452 traverse is highlighted by a yellow path.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA

Curiosity Rover's robotic arm workspace after its drive of 23 meters during mission sol 4442. A mosaic of 15 overlapping L-MastCam Bayer reconstructed frames, roughly assembled in MS-ICE.

Also attached is the drive data extracted from JPL's JSON URLs.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

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Edit: replaced the incorrect data page

Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left Mastcam-Z telephoto camera (at full zoom, 110 mm).

Mastcam-Z is a pair of zoomable stereo cameras located high on the rover's mast.

This image was acquired on January 23, 2025 (Sol 1396) at the local mean solar time of 14:04:16.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

Another drive for Perseverance rover. The drive was completed during mission sol 1325 (November 12, 2024). Arriving at site 62.0, and closer to the Western edge of 'Pico Turquino', the rock covered butte can seen in the upper part of this image. Pico Turquino is one of the waypoints in the crater rim science campaign. Attached is a roughly processed post-drive tiled L-NavCam image. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

16-tile CacheCam - Sol 1324

I'm assuming this is an image of the imaging station without a sample tube. Have they imaged it like this before?

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Elsewhere on Mars. A close-up of "Milly’s Foot Path". A small rock crushed by the wheels of Curiosity rover. Acquired using the Mars Hand Lens Imager on Sol 4355. The MAHLI camera standoff was ~10 centimeters. For scale, the scene width is ~5 centimeters. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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Looks like a nice drive / climb by Perseverance during mission sol 1283. In this tiled-NavCam image the rover is looking back at its tracks as it's climbing high up the inner rim wall of Jezero crater. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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I applied some further processing to this amazing family portrait of our Earth-Moon system taken by the JANUS camera onboard ESA's JUICE spacecraft.

This is approximately how it would appear to the human eye.

original: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/09/Juice_snaps_an_Earth_Moon_portrait

Credit: ESA/Juice/JANUS/Simeon Schmauß

Meanwhile on Mars: Curiosity Rover checking out a rubble patch in upper Gediz Vallis on sol 4243 (July 13, 2024) using its Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI). Metadata returned with the image suggests a camera standoff of ~5 cm, that equates to an image scale ~25 micrometers per pixel, or a scene width of ~4 cm (1.57 inches)

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech