Curiosity rover captures Mars dawn and dusk in one sweeping panorama
On 16 November 2021, NASA's Curiosity rover photographed the same Martian slope twice in one day, at 8:30 a.m. and 4:10 p.m. local Mars time. Engineers then merged the morning and afternoon images, colouring them blue and orange respectively, to reveal landscape details that neither shot showed alone. Mount Sharp, the 5-kilometre-tall mountain Curiosity has climbed since 2014, dominates the centre, with a field of sand ripples called the "Sands of Forvie" stretching up to 800 metres away. At the far right stands a craggy peak named after Rafael Navarro, a mission scientist who died earlier that year, according to NASA.
Space enthusiasts and students around the world get a rare, vivid look at a real Martian landscape, shaped over billions of years.
Source: A Picture Postcard From Curiosity's Navcams - NASA Science (photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov).
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