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This view through a valley called ‘Artist’s Drive’ from the Navigation Camera (Navcam) on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the terrain ahead of the rover as it makes its way westward.
This view from the Navigation Camera (Navcam) on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the terrain ahead of the rover as it makes its way westward through a valley called “Artist’s Drive.”

The Navcam recorded the component images of this mosaic on April 10, 2015, during the 951st Martian Day, or sol, of Curiosity’s work on Mars. The valley is on the rover’s route toward a higher site on Mount Sharp than the “Pahrump Hills” area the mission investigated at the base of the layered mountain.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project’s Curiosity rover and the rover’s Navcam.