NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Navigation Camera (Navcam) to record this scene of a butte called “Mount Remarkable” and surrounding outcrops at a waypoint called “the Kimberley” inside Gale Crater. The butte stands about 16 feet (5 meters) high. Its informal name comes from a mountain and national park in Australia. The rover team plans to drive Curiosity to the flatter outcrop at the base of the Martian Mount Remarkable for a close-up inspection that might include… [More at link]
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