Curiosity Panorama of Mars' Vera Rubin Ridge (Interactive)
NASA's Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings on Mars, producing a 360-degree panorama of its current location on Vera Rubin Ridge. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
This 360-degree panorama from NASA’s Curiosity rover was taken on August 9, 2018 (Sol 2137), and adjusted to show how the surface would appear under daylight conditions on Earth. Scale bars are included to show distance from the rover.
According to NASA:
The panorama includes umber skies, darkened by a fading global dust storm. It also includes a rare view by the Mast Camera of the rover itself, revealing a thin layer of dust on Curiosity's deck. In the foreground is the rover's most recent drill target, named "Stoer" after a town in Scotland near where important discoveries about early life on Earth were made in lakebed sediments.
More information about Curiosity is online at http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.
We’re still awaiting signal from Opportunity following the massive dust storm which blocked its solar panels, but in the meantime, nuclear-powered Curiosity is continuing to do its job.
