Sol 4709: 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 the far right of the frame, a very bright light source illuminates the sky above several small hills. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible along the bottom of the image.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

January 7, 2026

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	November 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 236 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on November 05, 2025, Sol 4709 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 0, site number 120. 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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