Sol 4394: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

A grayscale panorama of the Martian surface shows a wide field of flat, dark gray terrain dotted with flat, angular, medium-sized rocks stretching into the distance where a series of three hills rise from the ground, left to right on the horizon, the middle one lower on the horizon and farther away than the others. Portions of the Curiosity rover are visible at the bottom of the image, including one wheel visible in the lower right corner and another at the bottom center of the frame.

December 17, 2024

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	December 16, 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 221 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on December 16, 2024, Sol 4394 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 228, site number 112. 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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Sol 4394: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

Dec 17, 2024

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