Credit: Getty Images In this handout image provided by NASA and
released on August 9, 2012, a color image from NASA's Curiosity
Rover shows the pebble-covered surface of Mars. This is a
portion of the first color 360-degree panorama from NASA's
Curiosity rover, made up of thumbnails, which are small copies
of higher-resolution images. The mission's destination, a
mountain at the center of Gale Crater called Mount Sharp, can be
seen in the distance, to the left, beginning to rise up. The
mountain's summit will be imaged later. Blast marks from the
rover's descent stage are in the foreground.