MRO Views MSL Climbing Mount Sharp

[bystander]

NASA Mars Orbiter Views Rover Climbing Mount Sharp
NASA | JPL-Caltech | MRO | MSL | 2017 Jun 20

[img3="The feature that appears bright blue at the center of this scene is NASA's Curiosity Mars rover amid tan rocks and dark sand on Mount Sharp, as viewed by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on June 5, 2017.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona"]https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/im ... _hires.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]

Using the most powerful telescope ever sent to Mars, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught a view of the Curiosity rover this month amid rocky mountainside terrain.

The car-size rover, climbing up lower Mount Sharp toward its next destination, appears as a blue dab against a background of tan rocks and dark sand in the enhanced-color image from the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. The exaggerated color, showing differences in Mars surface materials, makes Curiosity appear bluer than it really looks.

The image was taken on June 5, 2017, two months before the fifth anniversary of Curiosity's landing near Mount Sharp on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6, 2017, EDT and Universal Time). ...

The rover's location that day is shown on Curiosity's Traverse Map as the point labeled 1717. Images taken that day by Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam) are here. ...