Sol 4382: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

A grayscale panorama of the Martian surface shows a wide field of flat terrain dotted with flat, angular, medium-sized rocks, all in dark gray, stretching into the distance where a series of three hills rise from the ground, left to right on the horizon. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible at the bottom of the image, including two wheels visible in the lower right corner of the frame, and a third at the bottom center of the frame. The pale gray sky grows much brighter at center horizon, as if the Sun is either setting or rising.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

December 4, 2024

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	December 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 231 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on December 04, 2024, Sol 4382 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 2124, site number 111. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was from 4 PM to 5 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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Dec 4, 2024

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