Sol 4414: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

A brightly lit, grayscale panorama of the Martian surface shows very uneven rocky terrain, with bright-toned, flat, lined and multi-angled rocks covering the surface, with darker soil in between, looking like the entire foreground stretching off into the distance had shattered. On the horizon, four hills rise from the ground — a small one at the center of the image, two larger ones on either side of it, and a fourth on the right side of the image that angles upward off the frame. Portions of the rover are visible at the bottom of the frame, from one corner of the other, including one wheel at bottom center, and two others in the lower right corner, along with visible wheel tracks on the ground there.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
January 6, 2025
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical DateJanuary 5, 2025
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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 259 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on January 05, 2025, Sol 4414 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 798, site number 112. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was from 1 PM to 2 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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