Sol 4282: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

A grayscale panoramic image of the Martian surface shows darkening skies and ground, where the terrain is marked by uneven slabs of rock covered in some areas by soil and small rocks. A gently sloped, layered rock hill dominates the background in the top center of the image, hiding the Sun, which is illuminating the only bright area in the picture, the sky above and to the sides of the hill. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible at the left, right, and bottom edges of the extreme wide-angle image.

September 5, 2024

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	August 23, 2024
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 249 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on August 23, 2024, Sol 4282 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 876, site number 108. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was 4 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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Sol 4282: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

Sep 5, 2024

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