NASA / JPL-Caltech / Ken Kremer / Marco Di Lorenzo A
photographic mosaic shows the Curiosity rover's surroundings at
a Martian location known as Yellowknife Bay. This view has been
assembled from black-and-white images captured by the rover's
navigation camera on Sol 132 (Dec. 19). Gaps in imagery of the
Martian sky have been filled in, and the whole scene has been
colorized. Click here or on the image to see the complete
360-degree panorama. The cameras on NASA's Curiosity rover have
been clicking away over the holidays — gathering enough pictures
for a 360-degree panorama of its rocky surroundings at
Yellowknife Bay, plus a close-up view showing a "Martian flower"
seemingly sprouting from the surface. The panorama was assembled
from pictures snapped by the rover's navigation camera system on
the 132nd Martian day of Curiosity's mission on the Red Planet,
also known as Sol 132 or Dec. 19. In this case, the folks doing
the assembling are Ken Kremer, a New Jersey-based journalist,
research chemist and photogra