Mars rover sends back 1st 360-degree color view
AP
A 360-degree panorama in color of Gale Crater Vista, taken by NASA's Curiosity rover is displayed at the Malin Space Science Systems, MSSS, control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., early morning Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. Scientists will be taking a closer look at several splotches in the foreground that appear gray. These areas show the effects of the descent stage's rocket engines blasting the ground. What appeared as a dark strip of dunes in previous, black-and-white pictures from Curiosity can also be seen along the top of this mosaic, but the color images also reveal additional shades of reddish brown around the dunes, likely indicating different textures or materials. MSSS built and operates the orbiter's Context Camera. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
A 360-degree panorama in color of Gale Crater Vista, taken by NASA's Curiosity rover is displayed at the Malin Space Science Systems, MSSS, control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., early morning Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. Scientists will be taking a closer look at several splotches in the foreground that appear gray. These areas show the effects of the descent stage's rocket engines blasting the ground. What appeared as a dark strip of dunes in previous, black-and-white pictures from Curiosity can also be seen along the top of this mosaic, but the color images also reveal additional shades of reddish brown around the dunes, likely indicating different textures or materials. MSSS built and operates the orbiter's Context Camera. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Michael Malin, principal investigator, Mars Descent Imager on MSL, Malin Space Science Systems looks at a data set of the the first 360-degree panorama in color of the Gale Crater landing site taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, as it is processed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., early morning Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. The images were taken late Aug. 8 PDT (Aug. 9 EDT) by the 34-millimeter Mast Camera. This panorama mosaic was made of 130 images of 144 by 144 pixels each. Selected full frames from this panorama, which are 1,200 by 1,200 pixels each, are expected to be transmitted to Earth later. The images in this panorama were brightened in the processing. Mars only receives half the sunlight Earth does and this image was taken in the late Martian afternoon. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Michael Malin, principal investigator, Mars Descent Imager on MSL, Malin Space Science Systems, left, and John Grotzinger, MSL project scientist, Cal-Tech, look at the first 360-degree panorama in color of the Gale Crater landing site taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, as it is processed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., early morning Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. The images were taken late Aug. 8 PDT (Aug. 9 EDT) by the 34-millimeter Mast Camera. This panorama mosaic was made of 130 images of 144 by 144 pixels each. Selected full frames from this panorama, which are 1,200 by 1,200 pixels each, are expected to be transmitted to Earth later. The images in this panorama were brightened in the processing. Mars only receives half the sunlight Earth does and this image was taken in the late Martian afternoon. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Jordan Evans, Engineering Development and Operations Manager, Mars Science Laboratory Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, wonders at rover's high resolution self-portrait, looking down at its deck from above, being downloaded at the Surface Mission Support Area, SMSA NASA's JPL in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. The images from Curiosity's just-activated navigation cameras, or Navcams, include this Picasso-like self portrait of NASA's Curiosity rover taken by its Navigation cameras, located on the now-upright mast. The camera snapped pictures 360-degrees around the rover, while pointing down at the rover deck, up and straight ahead. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Maher Hanna, Manager, Instrument and Science Data System Operations Group at Jet Propulsion Laboratory works on incoming image data sets from NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as they continuing to develop Curiosity's landing on Mars at the Surface Mission Support Area, SMSA control room at NASA's JPL in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. The images are taken by Curiosity's just activated navigation cameras, or Navcams. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) ? The Curiosity rover has returned another postcard from Mars ? the first 360-degree color view from Gale Crater.
Since landing Sunday night, NASA's six-wheel rover has been sending home a trickle of pictures, beginning with grainy, black-and-white photos. It also beamed back a low-quality video showing the last few minutes of its descent to the surface.
It recently raised its mast containing high-resolution and navigation cameras that have given scientists a better view of the landing site.
Curiosity is on a two-year mission to study whether Gale ever had conditions favorable for microbial life.
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