Sol 4261: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

A grayscale photo panorama of the Martian surface shows an area of flat ground in the foreground, with some smooth and some rocky sections interspersed, and two tall buttes in the background, one at the right side of the image and one dominating the center. The center one is brightly backlit by glowing sunlight. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible at the far left, bottom, and far right of the frame.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

August 16, 2024

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	August 1, 2024
Language	english

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took 33 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 246 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on August 01, 2024, Sols 4261-4255 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 792, site number 108. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was from 1 PM to 4 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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