added to Mars Science Laboratory 9 months ago Mars Science
Laboratory “Self Portrait” NASA’s Curiosity rover which touched
down on the planet Mars sits in solitude in Gale Crater at
4°32’05.21" south, 137°26’52.34" east; where it waits to begin a
multi-year mission to explore for evidence that environmental
conditions could have once supported life. This panorama is
comprised of a series of 36, 1200×1200 pixel RAW jpg images shot
by the rover’s right Navcam on August 8 (Sol 2). The photo-
taking sequence was programmed into the rover before landing, so
the framing of this series does not include a consistent view of
the horizon and virtually no sky. To build this spherical
panorama, I sampled the sky using a single image from another
rover camera—the 34mm Mastcam (different from the Navcam)—and
used that sample to build a simulated sky with faithful hues for
that general time of day. The horizon also required considerable
retouching because of incomplete coverage in the RAW images.
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