Well, the rover Curiosity continues to move along pretty well! This news piece gives us briefly some good detail relative to Curiosity's progress, and up-coming target of Mount Sharp
by Staff Writers
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 12, 2014
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has reached the Red Planet's Mount Sharp, a Mount-Rainier-size mountain at the center of the vast Gale Crater and the rover mission's long-term prime destination. "Curiosity now will begin a new chapter from an already outstanding introduction to the world," said Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
"After a historic and innovative landing along with its successful science discoveries, the scientific sequel is upon us."
Curiosity's trek up the mountain will begin with an examination of the mountain's lower slopes.
The rover is starting this process at an entry point near an outcrop called Pahrump Hills, rather than continuing on to the previously-planned, further entry point known as Murray Buttes. Both entry points lay along a boundary where the southern base layer of the mountain meets crater-floor deposits washed down from the crater's northern rim.
"It has been a long but historic journey to this Martian mountain," said Curiosity Project Scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
"The nature of the terrain at Pahrump Hills and just beyond it is a better place than Murray Buttes to learn about the significance of this contact. The exposures at the contact are better due to greater topographic relief."
More: http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/NASAs_Mars_Curiosity_Rover_Arrives_at_Martian_Mountain_999.html
I'm sure there are going to be interesting times during the exploration of that mountain, as all those layers tell the geological story of that area. :)