Sol 4384: 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, also dark gray, stretching into the distance where a pair of hills rise from the ground on the horizon. A bright light illuminates a small part of the sky, between the two hills at the top center of the image. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible at the bottom of the image, including a wheel visible in the lower right corner.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

December 11, 2024

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	December 6, 2024
Language	english

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took 24 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 December 06, 2024, Sol 4384 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 2386, site number 111. 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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Sol 4384: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

Dec 11, 2024

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