Curiosity Looks Back Toward Its Landing Site
The Curiosity Rover of NASA captured a view of its traces on July 26, 2025. The robotic scientist now explores a region of the mountain of the lower mountain, a mountain of 3 miles (5 kilometers high). The pale summit of the mountain can be seen at the top right; The edge of the Gale crater, in which the mountain is located, is on the horizon at the top left. Curiosity approached the soil of the crater 13 years ago.
Recently, the Rover has entered a region full of boxwork training. The study of these training courses could reveal whether the microbial lifespan could have survived in the Eons of the Martian subsoil, extending the period of habitability further when the planet was dried. Find out more about detective work, curiosity done on Mars.
Image credit: NASA / JPL-CALTECH
