Check this great Mars Curiosity landing site photo

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/2012/details/cut/landing_site_annotated.jpg

NASA's HiRise camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken this great photo of the landing site on Mars, showing all of the hardware. MRO is the Mars satellite that nabbed that amazing photo of Curiosity on the way down under its parachute.

In this latest shot, you can see the heatshield, the parachute and backshell, the MSL/Curisosity landing site and crash site of the Skycrane, its job wonderfully done.

There is a clear dark smudge around each site - where the impact or the landing rockets have blown the lighter surface dust away, leaving the darker subsurface exposed. Unlike landing sites on the Moon, this windy site will soon see these artifacts of that historic day erased, leaving just the machinery itself.

It's also interesting to see how much more reduced that smudging is around the Curiosity landing site. Seems to be evidence that the engineering solution of keeping the blast of the rockets higher up on the Skycrane was an effective one, when the goal was to reduce dust impacts on the rover itself.

You can click the pic to go big, or to go huge view a 555MB high resolution TIF of the photo and close-ups of each object over here.

Here's another slant on the leftover bits (via @AstroChicky)!