Sol 4294: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

A grayscale panoramic image of the Martian surface shows booth sky and ground well-lit. The rolling terrain is marked by uneven slabs of rock covered in some areas by soil and small rocks. In the background, a wide, gently sloping, layered rock hill rises above the ground at center. Farther away, to the right, is another hill with a more pointed top, and at third rises up to the right edge of the frame. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible in the frame of this extreme wide-angle image, taking up most of the lower-left corner. Several instruments and pieces of equipment are visible atop the rover, as are logos for NASA and JPL, with very dark, fine dust covering some areas.

September 5, 2024

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	September 4, 2024
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 243 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on September 04, 2024, Sol 4294 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 1480, site number 108. 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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