After two months of slow but steady trekking across the Martian landscape, Curiosity is getting ready to rest its wheels and get back to some good old-fashioned science.
This week, Curiosity's handlers announced that the Mars rover is less than 250 feet from the first of five waypoints that will break up its 5.3-mile journey to its next major destination - the base of Mt. Sharp, the Los Angeles Times reported.
To help scientists determine exactly where the rover should plan to stop, Curiosity climbed to the top of a rise known as Panorama Point and snapped the image above. The points of interest for scientists are the pale horizontal streaks in the image, which represent Martian bedrock.