Small Debris on the Ground Beside Curiosity
This image from NASA Mars rover Curiosity shows a small bright object on the ground beside the rover at the Rocknest site. The rover team has assessed this object as debris from the spacecraft, possibly from the events of landing on Mars.
- Date
- 2012-10-15
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Small Debris on the Ground Beside Curiosity" (2012-10-15). NASA/JPL/ NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA16230Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 23373.
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