The rover's primary target is Mount Sharp, a peak about 8 kilometers (5 miles) away.
The rover will head toward Mount Sharp, a 18, 000-foot high mountain about 7.5 miles south of where it landed.
The large rise in the background is the big mountain in the centre of Gale Crater known as Mount Sharp.
Curiosity landed in Gale Crater, which hosts a mound called Mount Sharp.
The vehicle will be scouring Mount Sharp in the crater's centre looking for evidence that past environments could have favoured microbial life.
The rover's prime target is Mount Sharp, the mountain in the crater.
That also means that Mount Sharp was formed in a different way than how mountains are created on Earth -- no one knows how.
Curiosity still has plans to travel to Mount Sharp, where it will slowly climb a mountain analyzing the sedimentary rock to explore its geological history.
Below is a panorama looking away into the distance towards the foothills of Mount Sharp, the 5km rise that is the eventual destination of Curiosity.
The rover is just north of a mountain called Mount Sharp.
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Dubbed Mount Sharp, it appears to be an unusual layer-cake of clay and other sedimentary deposits that may be relics of ancient water flows and organic chemistry.
"Part of understanding Mount Sharp is understanding the context around it and some of the features that have formed on the plains where we're at, " Vasavada said.
Its prime target is the 18, 000-foot (5, 500-meter) peak at the center of Gale Crater, Mount Sharp, where scientists hope to get a layer-by-layer look at the history of the planet.
Curiosity is due to turn its drill again in this mudstone for further analysis before climbing out of Yellowknife Bay and heading for the crater's big central mountain, Aeolis Mons (Mount Sharp).
The rover's mission is to determine whether Mars ever had an environment capable of supporting life, and its prime target is Mount Sharp, the 18, 000-foot (5, 500-meter) peak about 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) to the south.
"With the crater rim slope to the north and Mount Sharp to the south, we may be seeing more of the wind blowing along the depression in between the two slopes, rather than up and down the slope of Mount Sharp, " said Claire Newman, a REMS investigator at Ashima Research in Pasadena.
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