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Sol 3549: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

August 01, 2022

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took 31 images in Gale Crater using its mast-mounted Right Navigation Camera (Navcam) to create this mosaic. The seam-corrected mosaic provides a 360-degree cylindrical projection panorama of the Martian surface centered at 162 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north). Curiosity took the images on August 01, 2022, Sol 3549 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 1886, site number 96. 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. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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