This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 703 Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (July 29, 2014).

July 29, 2014

This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 703 Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (July 29, 2014).

Numbering of the dots along the line indicate the sol number of each drive. North is up. The scale bar is 1 kilometer (~0.62 mile). From Sol 702 to Sol 703, Curiosity had driven a straight line distance of about 97.56 feet (29.737 meters).

The base image from the map is from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment Camera (HiRISE) in NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Credits

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

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