NASA’s Curiosity rover captured evidence of rock layers that accumulated when wind sand accumulated in some areas and was cleared in others in the ancient past. This panorama, made up of nine separate images that were later merged, was taken at a place called “Las Claritas” using Curiosity’s Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on May 19, 2022, the 3478th Martian Day, or salt, from a mission.
Curiosity was built by NASA’s Southern California Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which heads the mission on behalf of NASA’s Directorate of Scientific Missions in Washington. Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego built and operated Mastcam.
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