Sol 4429: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

Alt text: 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 pyramid-shaped hill rises from the ground on the horizon, just to the right of image center. A bright light behind the hill illuminates a small part of the sky. Another outcropping, a larger mesa, rises from the ground near the left edge of the frame. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible at the bottom of the image, including a wheel visible in the lower left of the frame, and another at bottom right.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

January 23, 2025

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	January 21, 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 232 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on January 21, 2025, Sol 4429 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 1608, site number 112. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was from 2 PM to 3 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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