Sol 4493: 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 features rise from the ground. At left is a very large mesa, nearly reaching the top of the frame. At right, several small, pyramid shaped hills are backlit by a very bright light source that 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 28, 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 230 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on March 28, 2025, Sol 4493 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 1812, site number 114. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was 4 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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