Sol 4818: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

A grayscale panorama of the Martian surface, possibly at night or in twilight, shows a wide field of flat, dark gray terrain dotted with multiple jagged, medium-sized rocks stretching into the distance, where hills rise from the ground on the horizon. At center-right, a bright light behind a hill illuminates part of the sky, while the rest of the scene is fairly dark. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible along the bottom of the image, including wheels in the lower-right corner.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

April 23, 2026

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	February 25, 2026
Language	english

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took 31 images in Gale Crater using its mast-mounted Right Navigation Camera (Navcam) to create this mosaic. The seam-corrected mosaic provides a 360-degree cylindrical projection panorama of the Martian surface centered at 40 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on February 25, 2026, Sol 4818 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 2030, site number 120. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was 3 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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