NASAのインスタグラム(nasa) - 11月19日 01時38分

With MAVEN launching to Mars today at 1:28pm ET, here’s an image courtesy NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover. While Curiosity is working to understand Mars as a past habitat, MAVEN will study the upper Martian atmosphere. Curiosity will not be able to "see" MAVEN on its arrival. Later in the mission, Curiosity may be able to view MAVEN when its orbit passes over Gale Crater at dusk, similar to viewing a low-earth-orbiting (LEO) satellite around Earth. MAVEN will help in understanding Mars' climate history and uncovering when and how long Mars may have had an environment more favorable to microbial life than found today.

This photo is a mosaic of images taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on Curiosity while the rover was working at a site called "Rocknest" in October and November 2012. The center of the scene, looking eastward from Rocknest, includes the Point Lake area. After the component images for this scene were taken, Curiosity drove 83 feet (25.3 meters) on Nov. 18 from Rocknest to Point Lake. From Point Lake, the Mastcam is taking images for another detailed panoramic view of the area further east to help researchers identify candidate targets for the rover's first drilling into a rock.

CREDIT: NASA

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