Wow! UPDATED

And these are just thumbnail images!

Looking east. Gale in colour! (NASA/JPL)

These images were taken on the 9th this month and assembled into what you see. As you can see there are 2 grey areas (left and right of the rover) where the descent stage's rockets excavated the gravel and regolith.
In the distance at centre you can see the dark dunes hugging the slope of mount Sharp and further in the distance the rolling range of Gale crater's rim. The images were collected during late afternoon so they have been brightened a bit during processing. If you look at the dunes carefully you can see some other dunes of a different shade of colour. Why is this so? We'll just have to go there and see though those dunes are pretty menacing such that during cruise they did do some testing to see how the vehicle would perform on such terrain. We wouldn't want to get stuck now would we?

Initially I had wondered, considering how dirty the images looked due to the dust kicked up by the descent, how dirty was the rover itself. Turns out it's not as dirty as a coal miner but it is covered in gravel!

View of rover deck and surface sol 2. See the gravel on the deck? (Images by NASA/JPL; mosaic by me)

It's now sol 4, almost 6am at the landing site. These images were shot during sol 3.

Truly exquisite!