A Panorama of Curiosity’s Surroundings
Taken this morning (mission Sol 2) with the rover’s left Navcam, here’s a high-res panorama of Curiosity’s view at its landing site within Gale crater. The wide-angle view was assembled from two separate raw images, so while the mountainous rim of the crater is lined up horizontally there’s some distortion in alignment of objects closer to the rover due to the angle of the Navcam lens. Still, it’s a very cool view of Curiosity’s surroundings!
See the latest images from the MSL mission here, and check out 3D anaglyph images from Curiosity here.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Edited by J. Major.
(Image updated to link to full-size version.)
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