Sol 4398: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

A grayscale photograph of the Martian surface shows very uneven rocky terrain, with bright-toned, flat, lined and multi-angled rocks covering the surface, with darker soil in between, looking like the entire foreground stretching off into the distance had shattered. On the horizon, a pair of rocky hills rise at the center of the frame. Portions of the rover are visible at the bottom and left side of the frame.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

January 5, 2025

Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical Date	December 20, 2024
Language	english

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took 9 images in Gale Crater using its mast-mounted Right Navigation Camera (Navcam) to create this mosaic. The seam-corrected mosaic provides a 202-degree cylindrical projection panorama of the Martian surface centered at 260 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on December 20, 2024, Sol 4398 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 534, site number 112. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was from 1 PM to 2 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view.

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