Mars: Curiosity Rover Looks towards the Mountain.

Just after 8 am local solar time and before its drive on mission sol 1100 (September 10, 2015) Curiosity Rover acquired a series of left mast camera images featuring Aeolis Mons (aka Mt Sharp). At the time of posting this only 4 of the full frame images were available, so I have assembled this 'preview' of what will eventually become a large mosaic (L-MastCam)

Over the coming weekend the 'bright ridge' featured in the center of this mosaic will be subjected to imaging by the other mast camera and the telescopic Chemistry Camera/Remote Micro Imager (ChemCam-RMI)

I have presented the mosaic in 'raw' form direct from the JPL server and a processed version where the colour has been corrected towards what the final calibrated version should look like and increased the contrast marginally to reveal more of the surface details.

Done