This view of tracks trailing NASA’s Curiosity rover was captured July 26, 2025, as the rover simultaneously relayed data to a Mars orbiter.
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NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a view of its tracks on July 26, 2025. The robotic scientist is now exploring a region of lower Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain. The pale peak of the mountain can be seen at top right; the rim of Gale Crater, within which the mountain sits, is on the horizon at top left. Curiosity touched down on the crater floor 13 years ago.
Recently, the rover rolled into a region filled with boxwork formations. Studying these formations could reveal whether microbial life could have survived in the Martian subsurface eons ago, extending the period of habitability farther into when the planet was drying out. Read more about the detective work Curiosity is doing on Mars.
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这张照片拍摄于2025年7月26日，展示了NASA好奇号火星车留下的轨迹，同时火星车还在向一颗火星轨道器中继数据。
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好奇号火星车于当日捕捉到了自己的行驶痕迹。这辆机器人科学家目前正在探索夏普山下部区域，这座山高达5公里（约3英里）。图像右上方可见山峰的浅色轮廓，左上方地平线处则是盖尔陨石坑的边缘——夏普山正位于其中。好奇号已于13年前在该陨石坑地面成功着陆。
最近，火星车驶入了一个遍布箱形结构（boxwork formations）的区域。研究这些构造可能揭示数十亿年前火星地下是否具备微生物生存的条件，从而延长火星宜居时期的时间尺度，即便是在星球逐渐干涸之际。阅读更多关于好奇号在火星上进行的探索工作。
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