Sol 4439: 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. On the far left is a large butte that resembles a pyramid with the top half sliced off. In between are three smaller hills on the horizon. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible at the bottom of the image, including a wheel visible in the bottom center of the frame, and another two in the lower right.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

February 11, 2025

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	January 31, 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 228 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on January 31, 2025, Sol 4439 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 2616, site number 112. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was 3 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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