This
image is from a series of test images to calibrate the 34-millimeter Mast
Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover. It was taken on Aug. 23, 2012 and looks
south-southwest from the rover's landing site.
The gravelly area around Curiosity's landing site is visible in the foreground.
Farther away, about a third of the way up from the bottom of the image, the
terrain falls off into a depression (a swale). Beyond the swale, in the middle
of the image, is the boulder-strewn, red-brown rim of a moderately-sized impact
crater. Father off in the distance, there are dark dunes and then the layered
rock at the base of Mount Sharp. Some haze obscures the view, but the top
ridge, depicted in this image, is 10 miles (16.2 kilometers) away.