# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/kSxZPoIaPx
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11739520-nasa-instagram
- **Posted:** 2014-02-11T22:55:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Movie of Curiosity's View Backwards While Crossing Dune - The series of nine images making up this animation were taken by the rear Hazard-Avoidance Camera (rear Hazcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as the rover drove over a dune spanning "Dingo Gap" on Mars.  The Hazcam, mounted low on the vehicle's chassis, provides a wide-angle view.  Curiosity made this 23-foot (7 meter) drive during the 535th Martian day, or sol, of its work on Mars (Feb. 6, 2014). At the start of the drive, the rover's right-front wheel was already at the crest of the 3-foot-tall (1-meter-tall) dune, with the rover still pointed uphill. By the last three images in the series, the rover was headed downhill.

The light-toned dome on the right side of the horizon is part of Mount Sharp.  This drive was westward.  The rover's long-term destination on the lower slope of Mount Sharp is still farther west and south from the rover's current location. Dingo Gap provided an entryway into a valley to the west.  The valley appealed to the rover team as a driving route because its terrain includes fewer sharp rocks than alternative routes considered.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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