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NASA's Mars Exploration Program (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Sol 3048: Touch, Remote Sensing, and Go!
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 3048 (March 3, 2021).
This two-sol plan includes arm, remote sensing and mobility activities on Sol 3047 and more remote sensing on Sol 3048. To continue the sampling of chemistry and texture of the rubbly bedrock as we traverse across it, APXS will perform a short integration on a bedrock block named "Daglan" before MAHLI acquires 3 images (including stereo from a 5-cm standoff) of the same target. I focused on ChemCam planning today, helping to select and refine targets for passive observations of two types of bedrock at "Siorac en Perigord" and "Siorac de Riberac," plus a 10x3 RMI mosaic of a distant exposure of sulfate-bearing rocks. Mastcam will take a multispectral observation of "Cornille," the boundary between the two rock types, and stereo mosaics across similar, nearby transitions. Mastcam will also acquire a stereo mosaic of outcrops to the south that we plan to visit soon, to provide context for future observations. The Right Mastcam will also image "Ajat," a nearby rock face that is just visible over the rover, before Navcam searches for dust devils and clouds. Then the rover will drive toward the southeast and acquire images from its new location to prepare for contact science in the next plan. Finally, MARDI will take another twilight image before the rover rests overnight.
Ken Herkenhoff
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".
