Mars looks eerily similar to Earth in this new panorama
Released Friday by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, a dramatic 360-degree panorama, shows the surface of Mars looking a lot like the southwestern US.
Shot on August 5 by the Mast Camera aboard the Curiosity rover, the image most notably highlights a formation known as the Murray Buttes on Mount Sharp, a peak that rises 18,000 feet over the floor of the valley in which it’s located, reports Huffington Post.
More than 130 individual pictures make up the stunning visual. All of them were snapped from the rover’s position during the afternoon of the mission’s 1,421st sol (Martian day), which was also the fourth anniversary of Curiosity’s landing on Mars.
It is difficult to tell the scale from a cursory glance, but NASA says the dark mesa just left of Curiosity’s robotic arm is about 50 feet high and 300 feet from the rover’s position. You can also see an upper portion of Mount Sharp to the left of the mesa.
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