Sol 4394: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

A grayscale panorama of the Martian surface, possibly at night or in twilight, shows a wide field of flat, dark gray terrain dotted with flat, angular, medium-sized rocks, lighter gray, stretching into the distance where a pair of hills rise from the ground on the horizon. A bright light illuminates a small part of the sky, off the frame and above the smaller hill on the right. A third hill begins to slope upward on the horizon, at the right edge of the frame. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible at the bottom of the image, including a wheel visible in the bottom center of the frame, and two others in the lower right corner.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

December 17, 2024

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	December 16, 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 221 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on December 16, 2024, Sol 4394 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 228, site number 112. 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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