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NASA and the Curiosity rover: a 360-degree panorama of Mars

Are you interested in what an "excursion" to Mars looks like? NASA takes you across the surface of the red planet with a video of a 360-degree panorama from the perspective of the Curiosity rover. In the video, you can see the varied surface of Mars - both sand dunes and rocky surfaces.

Curiosity rover is known as after stunning photos of Mars as selfies, which sends them to Earth. A self-portrait he recently took shows this car-sized space vehicle collecting sand from the sand dunes that will helped scientists better understand the geological composition and history of Mars.

The Curiosity rover sent a selfie from the sand dunes of Mars to Earth.
The Curiosity rover sent a selfie from the sand dunes of Mars to Earth.

This time, they edited the photos taken by Curiosity video that provides a 360-degree view of the red planet's surface.

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The panorama is taken near the Namib sand dunes and shows colorful relief of Mars with a rocky surface, sand and mountains in the distance. At NASA, they found that the dunes migrate by 1 meter a year, so now they are studied in more detail, before the Curiosity rover returns to Mount Sharp, the mountain on Mars where it first landed in 2012.

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