Three years into its Mission, Curiosity’s Stunning Martian Panorama

by CALEB A. SCHARF

Planet Mars PHOTO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

It’s been three years since NASA’s Curiosity rover, carrying the Mars Science Laboratory, made its bold skycrane-assisted landing on the surface of Mars.

Since then the rover has progressed across a wealth of varied and fascinating terrain. The southward looking panorama here has been stitched together from images taken back in April 2015 with the rover cameras – on Martian days (or sols) 952 and 953 after landing (a solar day on Mars is 24 hours and 39 minutes).

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