Sol 4396: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

A grayscale panorama of the Martian surface shows a wide field of flat, dark gray terrain dotted with flat, angular, medium-sized rocks, all in lighter gray, stretching into the distance where a series of four 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 the top deck of the rover on the left side of the image, including a NASA logo. The terrain at image left slopes downward off the frame, and more distant areas are visible beyond.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
December 31, 2024
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical DateDecember 18, 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 253 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on December 18, 2024, Sol 4396 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 330, site number 112. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was 1 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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