Sol 4321: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

A grayscale panorama of the Martian surface shows night falling over a wide field of flat terrain dotted with small rocks, all in dark gray, stretching into the distance where a large butte rises from the ground. The only bright area of sky remaining is behind the butte. A portion of the Curiosity rover is visible in the lower left and lower right corners of the image.
October 9, 2024
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical DateOctober 2, 2024
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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 235 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on October 02, 2024, Sol 4321 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 1128, site number 109. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was 5 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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