It's been about a month and a half since the Mars Rover Curiosity has landed on the surface of the Red Planet. I was half expecting Curiosity to have travelled halfway across the planet by now, but in fact it has only done 367 meters of driving.
The reason for this short distance is that for every meter that Curiosity travels it does numerous tests, such as surface and atmosphere tests. Curiosity is also observing and capturing images of everything.
Curiosity is still in Gale Crater but is working its way to an area in the crater itself called the Glenelg Area. It will be nearing a rock called "Matijevic", which is going to be the first that Curiosity touches with its robotic arm. The Matijevic rock is named after Jake Matijevic (1947-2012), who was a key engineer on all three rover missions.
Curiosity also observed one of the two Mars moons, Phobos, transit the Sun.
