好奇号火星车海拔提升达到1公里

美国国家航天局（NASA）的好奇号（Curiosity）火星（Mars）车于2026年8月26日达到了其14年任务迄今为止的最高点，标志着它从火星上的盖尔巨爵座（Gale Crater）沿夏普山（Mount Sharp）斜坡攀登的过程中，海拔提升达到了1公里。

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover reached the pinnacle — so far — of its 14-year-old mission on Aug. 26, 2026, when it marked an elevation gain of 1 kilometer in its journey from Gale Crater on Mars up the slope of Mount Sharp.

好奇号于2026年8月1日和2日，即任务的第4,972个和第4,973个火星日（sols），获取了随附的马赛克图像，这是从其当前位置回望盖尔巨爵座底部的景象。这一景象拍摄于一个被昵称为“Valle Grande”的宽阔山谷内，俯瞰着这座火星车自2014年以来一直在攀登的、3英里（5公里）高的山峰。

Curiosity obtained the accompanying mosaic image, a view looking back from its current position toward the floor of Gale Crater, on Aug. 1 and 2, 2026, the 4,972nd and 4,973rd Martian days, or sols, of the mission. This view, captured within a broad valley nicknamed “Valle Grande,” looks down the side of Mount Sharp, the 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain that the rover has been climbing since 2014.

该视图是由好奇号的桅杆相机（Mastcam）拍摄的323张独立图像组成的单幅全景图。其色彩经过调整，以匹配肉眼（human eye）在地球（Earth）上所见的照明条件。

The view is a single panorama made up of 323 individual images snapped by Curiosity’s Mast Camera, or Mastcam. The color has been adjusted to match lighting conditions as the human eye would see them on Earth.

图注：下方的图A是图像中心部分的裁剪图，显示了好奇号的火星车轨迹消失在远方。透过夏季尘土飞扬的大气层，可以看到盖尔巨爵座的底部和北缘。

Figure A, below, is a crop from the center of the image that shows Curiosity’s rover tracks disappearing into the distance. The floor and northern rim of Gale Crater can be seen through the dusty, summertime atmosphere.

好奇号由美国国家航天局（NASA）的喷气推进实验室（Jet Propulsion Laboratory，JPL）建造，该实验室由位于加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳的加州理工学院（Caltech）管理。JPL代表位于华盛顿的NASA科学任务理事会（Science Mission Directorate）领导该任务，作为NASA火星探测计划（Mars Exploration Program）组合的一部分。位于圣地亚哥的马林空间科学系统公司（Malin Space Science Systems）建造并操作了Mastcam。

Curiosity was built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the mission on behalf of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington as part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program portfolio. Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego built and operates Mastcam.