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Into the Valleys: Curiosity NavCam panorama of Amargosa and Owens Valleys, sol 740 (September 5, 2014)

Into the Valleys: Curiosity NavCam panorama of Amargosa and Owens Valleys, sol 740 (September 5, 2014)
Into the Valleys: Curiosity NavCam panorama of Amargosa and Owens Valleys, sol 740 (September 5, 2014) On sol 740, Curiosity picked her way carefully down a ramp into a series of valleys that contain some of the oldest rocks she had yet encountered. The patch of light-toned rocks in the middle distance, about 1/3 of the way from the left edge of the image, is an outcrop named Pahrump Hills. NASA / JPL / Iñaki Docio