Sol 4389: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

A grayscale, trapezoid-shaped image of the Martian surface shows a patch of very rocky terrain next to the Curiosity rover. Parts of the rover are visible at the bottom of the frame. Several of the large rocks pushing up from the ground are layered and pyramid shaped.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

December 12, 2024

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	December 11, 2024
Language	english

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took 2 images in Gale Crater using its mast-mounted Right Navigation Camera (Navcam) to create this mosaic. The seam-corrected mosaic provides a 117-degree cylindrical projection panorama of the Martian surface centered at 224 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on December 11, 2024, Sol 4389 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 2722, site number 111. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was 3 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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Sol 4389: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

Dec 12, 2024

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