NASA’s Mars orbiter snapped this picture of Curiosity trucking alongside down on the floor

The Curiosity Mars rover covers numerous floor for a robotic that solely strikes at a max velocity of .1 mph. A photograph snapped just lately by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter offers a fairly cool visualization of what the rover has been as much as thus far this 12 months, exhibiting the tracks Curiosity left behind because it journeyed from its earlier science goal — an space referred to as the Gediz Vallis channel — to its subsequent vacation spot. The rover itself is only a tiny speck on the entrance of the roughly 1,050-foot-long path, and in response to NASA, this snap “is believed to be the primary orbital picture of the rover mid-drive throughout the Purple Planet.”