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PIA26364: Curiosity's Detailed View of 'Fascination Turret'
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this detailed view of jagged rocks and sediment exposed along the side of a mound called Fascination Turret.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) 
 Spacecraft:  Curiosity
 Instrument:  Mastcam 
 Product Size:  15169 x 4445 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA26364.tif (126 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA26364.jpg (12.16 MB)  

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Figure A

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this detailed view of jagged rocks and sediment exposed along the side of a mound called "Fascination Turret." Made up of 32 individual images that were stitched together after being sent back to Earth, this panorama was taken on March 24, 2024, the 4,135th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

Figure A is the same image, reprocessed to highlight the shadows.

Curiosity was built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the mission on behalf of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego built and operates Mastcam.

For more about Curiosity, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Image Addition Date:
2024-07-18