Link to video on YouTube.
JPL has a number of interesting videos on the NASA Curiosity mission (aka MSL), and the video linked above is a new production they've released today. It is a composite panorama from within the Gale crater, looking across to the opposite side (up to 50 km visibility!). It includes some annotations about geological features, as well as the overall path as traversed by the rover since its landing on August 5, 2012. It is a very interesting and informative video, and I highly recommend you take a look at it!
Below is the video description:
Curiosity Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada gives a descriptive tour of the Mars rover's view in Gale Crater. The white-balanced scene looks back over the journey so far. The view from "Vera Rubin Ridge" looks back over buttes, dunes and other features along the route. To see where the rover is now, visit https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/whereistherovernow
To aid geologists, colors in the image are white balanced so rocks appear the same color as the same rocks would on earth.
Submitted January 30, 2018 at 05:29PM by jimbo303 http://ift.tt/2rV1fYy
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