Panoramic view of northeastern hills, Curiosity sol 50

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Panoramic view of northeastern hills, Curiosity sol 50

A mosaic of three Mastcam-100 images taken on sol 50 facing northeast. There is no sky visible in this view; occupying the distance is Gale's crater rim.

NASA / JPL / MSSS / Emily Lakdawalla

Original images: 0050MR0229039000E1_DXXX - 0050MR0229040000E1_DXXX - 0050MR0229041000E1_DXXX

Here is a context view. This panorama is represented by the left box. The right box corresponds to another panorama taken on sol 51.

NASA / JPL / Damia Bouic

Context image for Curiosity sol 50 and 51 Mastcam-100 panoramas

Part of the sol 50 Navcam panorama, with the locations of two Mastcam panoramas highlighted.

Original image data dated on or about September 26, 2012.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For uses not allowed by that license, contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder: Emily Lakdawalla

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Comments:

Denny: 10/22/2012 11:17 CDT

Awesome! Here is my take on Sol 50: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jardmaster/8094120058/in/photostream Here is an interactive panorama I processed: http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=36952c05-441e-4463-9999-22a12e0fbb64 Here is a link to the awesome props I got from Phil Plait: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/10/17/standing-on-mars/ I love making these panoramas and anaglyphs. Closest I can come to being there!