PIA22545: Panorama of Vera Rubin Ridge - Mars Curiosity Rover - August 9, 2018<sup id="cite_ref-NASA-20180906_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA-20180906-1">[1]</a></sup><p>NASA's Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings on Aug. 9, 2018, showing its current location on Mars' Vera Rubin Ridge. The panorama includes skies darkened by a fading global dust storm and a rare view of the rover itself.
</p><p>After snagging a new rock sample on August 9, 2018 (Sol 2137), NASA's Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings on Mars, producing a 360-degree panorama of its current location on Vera Rubin Ridge. The scene is presented with a color adjustment that approximates white balancing, to resemble how the rocks and sand would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth. Two versions are included here: one with scale bars, and one without.
</p><p>The panorama includes umber skies, darkened by a fading global dust storm. It also includes a rare view by the Mast Camera of the rover itself, revealing a thin layer of dust on Curiosity's deck. In the foreground is the rover's most recent drill target, named "Stoer" after a town in Scotland near where important discoveries about early life on Earth were made in lakebed sediments.
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More information about Curiosity is online at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.nasa.gov/msl">http://www.nasa.gov/msl</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/">http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/</a>.<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r734161018">.mw-parser-output .reflist-talk{margin:auto 2em;border:1px dashed #AAAAAA;padding:4px;background-color:white;padding-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-talk-title{font-weight:bold}</style><div class="reflist-talk">
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<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-NASA-20180906-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-NASA-20180906_1-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Good, Andrew (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2018-09-06">September 6, 2018</span>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7230">Curiosity Surveys a Mystery Under Dusty Skies</a>. <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a></i>. Retrieved on <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2018-09-09">September 9, 2018</span>.</span>
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