Sol 4431: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

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. To the left, a larger butte rises from the ground, looking like a pyramid with the top half sheared off. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible along the bottom of the image, including wheels in the bottom center of the frame and lower-right corner.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

February 10, 2025

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	January 23, 2025
Language	english

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took 35 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 23, 2025, Sols 4431-4429 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 1608, site number 112. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was from 11 AM to 3 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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