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NASA's Mars Exploration Program (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Sol 2560: Best use of the time!
The images for panorama obtained by the rover's 34-millimeter Mast Camera. The mosaic, which stretches about 30,000 pixels width, includes 125 images taken on Sol 2560 (October 18, 2019).
We did not receive our decisional data from MRO in time for today’s planning, so we decided to make the best use of the time and energy available using the untargeted investigations available to us.
Mastcam is busy with a 360 panorama, which will give context to all our past and future investigations in the area. In addition to the daytime ground-based observation, Mastcam wakes up in the dark to do an astronomical investigation of Phobos, followed – in daytime - by some calibration activities.
It’s not only Mastcam who will be busy over the weekend, though. ChemCam has two observations, which will together investigate three targets. As regular readers of this blog will know, ChemCam can use AEGIS, an image processing routine to find its own targets. It will be looking for one target in the workspace, and two to the side of the rover. We are now all looking forward to data from 5 sols of Curiosity activities – stay tuned
Written by Susanne Schwenzer
Other panoramas of Mars by Curiosity rover:
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The planet Earth has proven to be too limiting for our awesome community of panorama photographers. We're getting an increasing number of submissions that depict locations either not on Earth (like Mars, the Moon, and Outer Space in general) or do not realistically represent a geographic location on Earth (either because they have too many special effects or are computer generated) and hence don't strictly qualify for our Panoramic World project.But many of these panoramas are extremely beautiful or popular of both.So, in order to accommodate our esteemed photographers and the huge audience that they attract to 360Cities with their panoramas, we've created a new section (we call it an "area") called "Out of this World" for panoramas like these.Don't let the fact that these panoramas are being placed at the Earth's South Pole fool you - we had to put them somewhere in order not to interfere with our Panoramic World.Welcome aboard on a journey "Out of this World".
