Picture released from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows for the first time a Martian rover mid drive on the Planet.
Curiosity was pictured on a drive through the Gediz Vallis channel where the rover has discovered conditions suitable for life adding to my belief there is still life on or rather in our red neighbour.
![[Image: mnbGe8igJidZx8YqHebTkP-970-80.jpg.webp]](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mnbGe8igJidZx8YqHebTkP-970-80.jpg.webp)
Staggering to think Curiosity has been on Mars for 13 years now.
Happy trails old girl.
Curiosity was pictured on a drive through the Gediz Vallis channel where the rover has discovered conditions suitable for life adding to my belief there is still life on or rather in our red neighbour.
![[Image: mnbGe8igJidZx8YqHebTkP-970-80.jpg.webp]](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mnbGe8igJidZx8YqHebTkP-970-80.jpg.webp)
Staggering to think Curiosity has been on Mars for 13 years now.
Quote:The rover's work has been extremely intriguing to astrobiologists, showing that Gale was indeed a habitable environment long ago: The area hosted a long-lived lake-and-stream system that had the ingredients for life, as well as a possible chemical energy source that could support microbial metabolism.
MRO has been operating at the Red Planet even longer than Curiosity, reaching Mars orbit in March 2006. As the new photo shows, MRO is still going strong, hunting for signs of past water activity on the Red Planet, serving as a communications relay for surface craft like Curiosity and its younger cousin, Perseverance — and keeping tabs on these robots' movements from time to time as well.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/...anet-photo
Happy trails old girl.