Sol 4487: 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 couple of features rise from the ground. At left is a very large mesa, nearly reaching the top of the frame. At right, smaller hills lead up to a medium-sized mesa, behind which a very bright light source illuminates the sky above. 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 31, 2025

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	March 22, 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 198 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on March 22, 2025, Sol 4487 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 1164, site number 114. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was from 2 PM to 3 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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