Sol 4480: 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 several features rise from the ground. At left is a very large mesa, nearly reaching the top of the frame. In the middle, a smaller mesa, a little farther away — a very bright light source illuminates the sky above this. To the right of that, two much smaller, gently sloped hills, looking to be even farther from the rover. And at the far right, the other half of the largest mesa, at far left, rises up to complete the 360-degree view. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible at the bottom of the image, including one wheel visible in the bottom center of the frame and two others in the lower right corner.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

March 19, 2025

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	March 14, 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 272 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on March 14, 2025, Sol 4480 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 534, site number 114. 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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