NASA shares a postcard from Mars created by the Curiosity spacecraft

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November 24, 2021 22:45 GMT

In the center of the image you can see Mount Sharp, which is 5 km high, which Curiosity has been climbing since 2014, while at the far right of the panorama you can see the rocky mountain Rafael Navarro.

NASA reveal This Tuesday, a postcard with images taken on Mars by the Curiosity rover.

Last week, the rover took two photos during its last stop on the slope of Mount Sharp. The black and white photos were taken at different times of the day, but the team responsible for the mission were so impressed by the beauty of the landscape that they combined the two photos into one and added color to create a rare postcard. … from the red planet.

Curiosity captures 360-degree views of its surroundings, using black and white navigation cameras every time it completes a movement. To make it easier to send the panorama to Earth, the probe saves it in low quality in a compressed format. But this time, the team decided to capture the surrounding landscape at the highest resolution possible for the cameras.

In the center of the image you can see Mount Sharp, which is 5,000 meters high, which Curiosity has been climbing since 2014, while on the far right you can see the rocky mountain Rafael Navarro.

curiosity Origin to Mars in August 2012, in order to search for traces of life and facilitate studies on the geological history of the planet.

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