"NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover has now driven 358 feet, about the length of a football field since, landing on the Red Planet exactly one month ago, NASA reported on Thursday.
The latest drive spurt, also the rover’s longest yet at 100 feet, occurred on Tuesdsay. NASA said it employed a “dogleg” maneuver during the drive, which allowed the six-wheeled, car-sized rover to narrowly avoid a patch of sand which would have slowed it down and could have caused other problems.
Curiosity now sits about a quarter of the way to its first destination, an area of diverse Martian geology known as “Glenelg,” where NASA intends to deploy the rover’s 7-foot-long robotic arm and onboard drill and sample soil for the first time.
But before that, last weekend, on September 2nd, NASA was able to snap one of its clearest satellite photos yet of the rover, using a giant reflective mirror telescope called the HiRISE instrument, located aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite, which has been orbiting the Red Planet for the past six years."
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