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Figure A
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama under exceptionally clear conditions of Gale Crater's northern rim on Aug. 25, 2025, the 4,640th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Dust in the air is at its lowest during Martian winter, providing Curiosity its best views all the way across the yawning crater floor from the rover's perch in the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain roughly 22 miles (35 kilometers) from the crater rim.
The panorama was stitched together on Earth from 44 images captured by Curiosity's Mastcam instrument. The color in these images has been adjusted to match the lighting conditions as the human eye would see them on Earth.
Figure A is a cropped version focusing on Peace Vallis, an ancient river channel near the center of the panorama. Outside of Gale Crater on the upper right looms a mountain about 57 miles (91 kilometers) from Curiosity.
Curiosity was built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the mission on behalf of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program portfolio. Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego built and operates Mastcam.
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