Sol 4435: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

A grayscale panorama of the Martian surface, brightly lit, 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 a wheel in the bottom center of the frame and two others in the lower-right corner.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

February 10, 2025

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	January 27, 2025
Language	english

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took 30 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 210 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on January 27, 2025, Sol 4435 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 2148, site number 112. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was 2 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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