You ’re looking at a small department of a vast and colourful panoramic view of Mars , one of the latest to be beamed back by NASA ’s Curiosity scouter . The panorama ( come home herefor full - res ) show a 360 - degree view of the rover ’s landing web site , and a percipient shot of the highest seeable stretch of Mount Sharp , the rover ’s elementary scientific target .
needlelike towers an telling 5 kilometers above the floor of Gale volcanic crater , its top soaring even high-pitched in elevation than fate of the volcanic crater ’s flange . If it attend belittled here , that ’s because there ’s a bonnie bit of distance between it and Curiosity — about 12 miles ( 20 kilometer ) . According to the delegacy :
The images were obtained by the rover ’s 34 - millimetre Mast Camera . The mosaic , which stretch about 29,000 pixels across by 7,000 pixels high , includes 130 images taken on Aug. 8 and an additional 10 images occupy on Aug. 198 . These images were shot before the photographic camera was amply characterized .
Check out the picture below to see the scene up - closely .
Also admit in Curiosity ’s latest quite a little of image : this arresting telephotograph view of the base of Mount Sharp , which understandably shows the layers of geologic socio-economic class that make the slew ’s low elevations such an attractive scientific object :
“ This is an area on Mount Sharp where Curiosity will go , ” state Mastcam principal researcher Michael Malin in a statement . He go on :
Those layers are our ultimate objective . The saturnine dune field is between us and those layers . In front of the dark sand you see redder Baroness Dudevant , with a unlike piece hint by its different people of colour . The tilt in the foreground show multifariousness — some rounded , some angulate , with unlike story . This is a very copious geological site to look at and eventually to repel through .
Up next for Curiosity : a Modern song by will.i.am ( of The Black Eyed Peas ) will be broadcastfrom the surface of Mars via the bird of passage . Watch it endure today at 16:00 EDT on NASA TV .
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