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Mars Rover Curiosity's Panoramic Photo Depicts Its Epic Journey

It captured images that show some of the key regions NASA's robot has explored since 2012.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took photos from the Vera Rubin Ridge showing the interior and rim of Gale Crater. The <a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/largesize/PIA22210_hires.jpg" target="_blank">full image</a> features 16 photos stitched together.

Here's a reminder that while you are out in the world buying groceries, picking up dry cleaning or catching up on The Crown, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is on the red planet doing work.

The nuclear-powered mobile science laboratory has been slowly roving across the surface of Mars since

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