NASA has announced the site of their first use of Curiosity’s drill, named “John Klein”, along with this press release image ( Click to enlarge – these are “hot links” ) :
They have other images of the panorama this is taken from, but here is my version made from the Sol 153 Mastcam raw image gallery. ( Click to enlarge … if you dare! š )
The one thing they’re not saying, unless I missed it, is that this is really part of the Snake River site, and the Mastcam panorama was takenĀ from the sameĀ site as the Navcam spherical panorama I published below. Here is a small ( 5 image ) cylindrical Navcam panorama from images taken from that siteĀ on Sol 152:
You can see the “lean-to” rock marking the John Klein site in the center mid-ground. To the left are the “head waters” of Snake River. To the right you can see “Mt. Fuji” on the horizon, which marks 10 degrees west of north from this area.Ā At the bottom right corner you can see Curiosity’s tracks marking its path to Snake River.
These images can be combined with the previous Snake River panorama to form this grand conglomeration showing everything in one view:
