Sol 4456: 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 stretching into the distance, where hills rise from the ground on the horizon — some pyramid-shaped, others flat-topped. At center-right, a bright light behind a hill illuminates a small part of the sky, while the rest of the scene is fairly dark. 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 24, 2025

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	February 18, 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 211 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on February 18, 2025, Sol 4456 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 1440, site number 113. 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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