Sol 4423: 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, a hill rises at the center of the image, its peak softened like a timeworn pyramid, with two flat mesas extending to either side at the base. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible at the bottom of the frame, from one corner to the other, including one wheel at bottom center, and two others in the lower right corner, along with undulations throughout the soil nearby, looking in some places like wheel tracks and in others like sand scalloped by wind or water.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

January 15, 2025

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	January 15, 2025
Language	english

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity took 62 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 188 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on January 15, 2025, Sols 4423-4417 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 1014, site number 112. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was from 2 PM to 12 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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