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NASA’s Curiosity rover celebrates 3,000 Sols, or Martian days exploring the Red Planet in this self portrait mosaic stitched from left navigation camera raw images taken on Sol 3000, Jan. 12/13, 2021 and colorized – and is cropped from the wider panorama (below). Credit: NASA/JPL/Ken Kremer
The view from Mars on Sol 3,000 – simply spectacular !!! As she snapped a dramatic new self portrait backdropped by alien scenery from the Red Planet
NASA’s groundbreaking Curiosity rover is celebrating 3,000 Sols, or Martian days, of exploration on the Red Planet since she touched down on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012 inside Gale Crater with the goal of climbing Mount Sharp in search of sign of water and organic molecules and potential signs of past life.