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Summary

Description	English: PIA16566: Close-up of Brushed Area on Martian Rock Target 'Ekwir_1' http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16566 Target Name: Mars Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun) Mission: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Spacecraft: Curiosity Instrument: MAHLI Product Size: 1605 x 1196 pixels (width x height) Produced By: Malin Space Science Systems Full-Res TIFF: PIA16566.tif (5.761 MB) Full-Res JPEG: PIA16566.jpg (619.5 kB) Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format (possibly reduced in size from original) Original Caption Released with Image: This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows details of rock texture and color in an area where the rover's Dust Removal Tool (DRT) brushed away dust that was on the rock. This rock target, "Ekwir_1" was brushed and this image was recorded on the same Martian day, or sol, Sol 150 of Curiosity's mission on Mars (Jan. 6, 2013.) The image, one of the highest resolution images returned so far by MAHLI, was taken from a distance of about 0.4 inch (1 centimeter) from the rock's surface. Fractures, white veins, pits and tiny dark grains in the rock are visible, as well as remaining clumps and specks of dust. The scale bar at lower left is 2 millimeters (0.08 inches). Honeybee Robotics, New York, N.Y., built the DRT for Curiosity. Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built the MAHLI. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover. For more about NASA's Curiosity mission, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl, http://www.nasa.gov/mars, and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Image Addition Date: 2013-01-07
Date	7 January 2013, 21:01:00
Source	http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16566.jpg
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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