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Sol 4697: Mast Camera (Mastcam)
This image was taken by MAST_RIGHT onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4696 (2025-10-23)

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

NASA's Curiosity rover is a car-sized robotic explorer on Mars, part of the Mars Science Laboratory mission. It landed on Mars in August 2012 and has been exploring Gale Crater and Mount Sharp, searching for evidence of past habitability and the presence of organic molecules.

Curiosity was built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the mission on behalf of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego built and operates Mastcam.

A key objective for curiosity's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including caching samples that may contain signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.

The Mars Perseverance and curiosity mission are part of NASA's Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed for the agency by Caltech, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover and curiosity rover.