Sol 4471: 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 a pair of gently sloped, flat-topped buttes rise from the ground on the horizon. Behind the one at the right, a blinding light behind it illuminates 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 a wheel at the bottom center of the frame, and two others in the lower-right corner.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

March 7, 2025

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	March 5, 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 221 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on March 05, 2025, Sol 4471 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 0, site number 114. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was from 4 PM to 5 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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