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Martian Surface Below Curiosity

This color thumbnail image was obtained by NASA's Curiosity rover during its descent to the surface of Mars on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). This image from Curiosity's Mars Descent Imager reveals surface features including relatively dark dunes, degraded impact craters and other geologic features including small escarpments that range in size from a few feet (meters) to many tens of feet (meters) in height.

Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Image released by NASA on 2012-08-07 as catalog id PIA15989