14 DAY TRIAL // Curiosity is making good progress towards her main target, the slopes of the Mount Sharp volcano.
For the past few months, ever since she left the last stop where she halted for scientific observations, the rover has been driving towards the main target of the mission.
In fact, she has just reached the two-kilometer (1.24 miles) mark, an impressive distance in such little time. She still has six km (3.7 miles) more to go, more since she's not going in a straight line obviously, but things are proceeding as planned.
But it's still going to take many more months until the final target is reached, in 2014, and that's if Curiosity doesn't stop along the way if she stumbles onto an interesting site, a very real possibility.
That's not to say that it's going to be a boring ride though. In fact, while she spends most of her energy driving, the rover is also doing science.
Samples collected at several past locations are still being stored and will be analyzed by the internal instruments, such as SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) and CheMin.