Curiosity Tracks Parachute And Backshell Seen From Orbit

Tracks from the first drives of NASA's Fascination nomad are visible in this image captured by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Check (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Survey Orbiter. The nomad is seen someplace the tracks end. The image's color has been aristocratic to show the transitory details better. The two footpath seen more or less the site someplace the nomad landed fashioned having the status of healthy-looking transitory mustiness was blown away by the rover's dip recover, revealing darker basaltic sands substructure. Similarly, the tracks be as long as darker someplace the rover's wheels disturbed the top ridge of mustiness. Observing the tracks over time will allot information on how the transitory changes as mustiness is deposited and rutted. The dominated image for these explanation can be seen at http://uahirise.org/releases/msl-tracks.php. This color view of the parachute and bring wrapping that helped do well NASA's Fascination nomad to the transitory of the Red Soil was demanding by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Check (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Survey Orbiter. The area someplace the bring wrapping impacted the transitory is darker in the role of lighter-colored substance on the transitory was kicked up and displaced. HiRISE is one of six instruments on NASA's Mars Survey Orbiter. The Scholastic of Arizona, Tucson, operates the orbiter's HiRISE camera, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Take the stones out of, Colo. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a outlet of the California Construct of Tackle in Pasadena, manages the Mars Survey Orbiter Extension for NASA's Science Undertaking Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Lull Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Ornamentation credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona. Larger image