![]() ![]() It required more than six-and-a-half hours over the four days to capture the individual shots. ![]() ![]() When the mission team was out for the Thanksgiving, the rover had a rare chance to image its surroundings from the same vantage point several days in a row, the agency added. The composite picture contains 1.8 billion pixels of the Martian landscape.īoth panoramas showcase “Glen Torridon,” a region on the side of Mount Sharp that Curiosity is exploring, NASA said. The rover’s Mast Camera (or Mastcam) used its telephoto lens to produce the panorama whereas the Curiosity relied on its medium-angle lens to produce a lower-resolution panorama that includes its deck and robotic arm. The pictures of the 360-degree panorama were taken between November 24 and December 1, 2019. NASA’s Curiosity rover just released its highest-resolution panorama of the Mars that has a file size of 2.43 GB. The rover travelled 21.92 kilometres and snapped a total of 654,661 pictures of the red planet with the latest addition of a panorama composed of more than 1,000 images. “Did Mars ever have the right environmental conditions to support small life forms called microbes?” NASA’s Curiosity rover set out to find the answer to this very question when it landed on the Martian surface on August 5, 2012. NASA’s Curiosity rover captured its highest-resolution panorama of the Martian surface between Nov. ![]()
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