Curiosity’s First 360-Degree Color Panorama

(Before It's News)

Doesn’t Gale Crater look lovely this time of year? This is the first 360-degree panorama of color images taken by Curiosity’s color Mast Camera. The individual images used in this first panorama may only have been thumbnail-sized, but the effect is no less stunning.

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Post tags: color image, Curiosity, Gale crater, JPL, Mars, Mt. Sharp, NASA, panorama, Rover

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