Sol 4263: 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
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical DateAugust 3, 2024
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took 34 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 03, 2024, Sols 4263-4255 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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