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A short drive for Curiosity rover provides the science team with another set of potential rock targets in the rover's robotic arm workspace. The mosaic is assembled from 6 overlapping mast camera images from sol 3928 (August 25, 2023). For scale the scene is approximately 2 meters across.

The drive data is also attached, and a montage of screen captures from the MSL mission traverse map.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/USGS

Curiosity's workspace after a bump (short drive) on August 21, 2023 / sol 3924. This mosaic was assembled from 6 overlapping Bayer reconstructed L-MastCam images. It covers an area about 2 meters (~6 feet) across. The mosaic features some small boulders from the Gediz Vallis ridge. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

Odd Rocks of Gale crater.

Wonderful, yet very unusual regularly-spaced - parallel linear features on a number of fallen blocks at the rover's current location. R-MastCam composite of two overlapping frames from sol 3786.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk