Curiosity captures panoramic image of an entire “valley” on Mars; check out

The Curiosity mission arrived on Mars in 2012, and since then it has been revealing many details about Red Planet soil that humanity did not know or just imagined. The robot that scoures this extraterrestrial world also occasionally impresses us with breathtaking images from its travels. Today (31), NASA released a panoramic photo of the Gale Crater, which looks more like a valley, and showed all the way the robot has already completed.

There were 16 individual photographs taken by Curiosity, which were put together in a panorama by NASA here on Earth. The US space agency also explained that it has made a white balance in the images so that you can see the images according to the incidence of sunlight here on our planet.

These photos were taken on October 25, 2017, when the Curiosity mission robot was climbing a hill on the bank of Gale Crater. It is possible to check out the mountain range from the other edge and also formations outside. According to the agency, this was a rare opportunity to photograph Mars because of the clear winter weather in that region.

In the video you see, NASA shows all the points the robot has gone through. From the landing site, it has traveled about 17 km and climbed to an altitude of 327 meters. It may not seem like much for a mission of more than five years, but the robot has a slow and complicated locomotion that needs to be controlled from Earth, which implies a considerable delay . Other than that, the robot can stay weeks at about the same place doing soil, rock and mountain analyzes.

Curiosity captures panoramic image of an entire “valley” on Mars; check out via TecMundo