Sol 4355: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

A grayscale panorama of the Martian surface shows a wide field of flat terrain dotted with flat, angular, medium-sized rocks, all in dark gray, stretching into the distance where a series of three hills rise from the ground, left to right on the horizon. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible at the bottom of the image, including two wheels visible in the lower right corner and a third at the bottom center of the frame. Wheel tracks are also visible in the soil next to the rover. The pale gray sky grows much brighter from the left to right side of the frame, as if the Sun is either setting or rising.
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December 2, 2024
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical DateNovember 6, 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 118 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on November 06, 2024, Sol 4355 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 120, site number 111. 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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