Data from NASA's website shows that recently, the Curiosity rover located in Gale Crater has been going back, starting from 3356 Martian days and going back to 3379 Martian days, that is, February 7, 2022.
We analyzed it in conjunction with the location of Curiosity, which originally landed in the marginal area inside Gaelic Crater, and the final destination was the central area of Gaelic Crater, where Curiosity is currently in a canyon with cliffs on both sides and a slope in front of it.
First, it may be that the slope in front is larger, curiosity to cross, may take a lot of risks, for safety reasons, the control team chose to go back, and then look for other roads, second, may be the road ahead of more rocks, the impact on the curiosity wheels is greater, in order to protect the wheels, choose to go back, to know that curiosity wheels have broken a number of large holes.
As of February 2022, Curiosity has traveled 27.14 kilometers and taken 880,000 photos of Mars, giving us a glimpse of a planet so desolate that it raises a question, what is the point of us really colonizing such a planet?