PIA18070: Panorama With Sandstone Outcrop Near 'The Kimberley' Waypoint (Stereo)


Panorama With Sandstone Outcrop Near ‘The Kimberley’ Waypoint (Stereo)

Caption:

click here for left-eye view for PIA18070 click here for right-eye view for PIA18070
Figure A Figure B

Click on an individual image for full resolution figures image

This 160-degree, stereo view from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is centered southward toward a planned science waypoint at "the Kimberley," with an outcrop of eroded sandstone in the foreground. The panorama appears three dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses with the red lens on the left. It combines several frames taken by the Navigation Camera (Navcam) high on the rover's mast, during the 574th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (March 18, 2014).

The scene spans from east-southeast at the left to west-southwest at the right. It is presented as a cylindrical-perspective projection. Separate left-eye and right-eye components of this anaglyph are available as Figure A and Figure B.

Background Info:

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover and the rover's Navcam.

More information about Curiosity is online at http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ .

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target Mars
System
Target Type Planet
Mission Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Instrument Host Curiosity Rover
Host Type Rover
Instrument Navigation Camera (Navcam)
Detector
Extra Keywords Color
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2014-03-24
Date in Caption 2014-03-18
Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18070
Identifier PIA18070