Sol 4425: 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 stretching into the distance where several hilly features rise from the ground, left to right on the horizon. The largest is a trapezoid-shaped mesa at center left, while the next in size is a smaller, pyramid-shaped hill toward the right side of the frame, silhouetted by a bright light in the sky behind it. Four other features appear smaller and more distant. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible at the bottom of the image, including one wheel visible in the bottom center of the frame and two others in the lower right corner.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

January 18, 2025

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	January 17, 2025
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 199 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on January 17, 2025, Sol 4425 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 1326, site number 112. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was from 3 PM to 4 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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