An artistic interpretation of Curiosity's field of view on a mountain on Mars was created by team members who were amazed by the sweeping view.
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover took a stunning photo from its last stand on the side of Mount Sharp on Mars. The mission team was so impressed by the beauty of the landscape that they combined two versions of the black and white images from different times of the day and added colors to create a rare postcard from the Red Planet.
Curiosity captures a 360-degree field of view of its surroundings using its black-and-white navigation cameras every time it completes a ride. To make it easier to send the resulting panoramic photo to Earth, the vehicle saves it in a low-quality compressed format. But when the vehicle crew saw the view from Curiosity's last stop, it was too beautiful not to capture in the highest quality the navigation cameras could.
Many of the most amazing panoramic photos of the vehicle are from the color Mastcam device, whose resolution is much higher than the navigation cameras. So the team added their own colors to this last image. The shades of blue, orange and green are not what the human eye will see, but they represent the landscape as it looks at different times of the day.
On November 16, 2021 (the solstice day, or Sol, the 3,299th of the mission), engineers commanded Curiosity to take two sets of mosaic images, capturing the view at 08:30 a.m. and again at 16:10 p.m., Martian time. At both hours of the day there were contrasting lighting conditions that presented a variety of details in the landscape. The team combined the two landscapes in an artistic reconstruction that includes elements of the morning landscape in blue, the afternoon landscape in orange and a combination of both in green.
In the center of the image you see the view looking back down Mount Sharp, a 5 km high mountain that Curiosity has been climbing since 2014. To the right of the center of the image you can see round hills in the distance, which Curiosity photographed more closely in July, when the vehicle began to see intriguing changes in the landscape. A field of sand ripples called "Forby Sands" stretches 400-800 meters away.
To the far right of the panoramic image is the rocky "Mount Raphael Navarro", named after a scientist on the Curiosity team who died earlier this year. Behind it you can see the top of Mount Sharp, far above the area that Curiosity is discovering. Mount Sharp lies within Gale Crater, a 154 km wide basin formed by an ancient collision. The far rim of Gale Crater rises to a height of 2.3 km, and is visible on the horizon at a distance of about 30 to 40 km.
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