14 DAY TRIAL // NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has arrived at her first waypoint along the long trek towards her mission's main target, Mount Sharp.
The waypoint, dubbed Darwin, provides the science team with a new chance to do some readings and investigate the rock outcrops.
It's also a welcomed break from the usual pace. Curiosity has been on the road for several months now and, despite the faster progress she's been making lately, the rover still has several more months to go before she reaches her destination, well into 2014.
The rover is now about 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) into the 8.6-kilometer (5.3-mile) journey to Mount Sharp.
Curiosity will spend only a couple of Martian days at the site. She arrived there on September 12, Universe Today reports.
This is the first of five locations around the route that scientists deemed interesting enough for study. The rover will take some samples and will get on her way.
