{"id":12165,"date":"2016-02-08T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T17:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12165"},"modified":"2016-02-08T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T17:01:15","slug":"video-curiosity-rovers-panoramic-view-of-the-namib-dune-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12165","title":{"rendered":"Video: Curiosity rover&#8217;s panoramic view of the Namib Dune on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drag the cursor on this image to see the\u00a0360 degree view of the Namib Dune on Mars where the Curiosity rover was\u00a0exploring in December:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/spaceimages\/details.php?id=pia20284\">Full-Circle Panorama Beside &#8216;Namib Dune&#8217; on Mars<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ME_T4B1rxCg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This view of the downwind face of &#8220;Namib Dune&#8221; on Mars covers 360 degrees, including a portion of Mount Sharp on the horizon. The site is part of the dark-sand &#8220;Bagnold Dunes&#8221; field along the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp. Images taken from orbit indicate that dunes in the Bagnold field move as much as about 3 feet (1 meter) per Earth year.<\/p>\n<p>The component images of this scene were taken on Dec. 18, 2015, by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Mars rover during the 1,197th Martian day, or sol, of the rover&#8217;s work on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom of the dune nearest the rover is about 23 feet (7 meters) from the camera. This downwind face of the dune rises at an inclination of about 28 degrees to a height of about 16 feet (5 meters) above the base. The center of the scene is toward the east; both ends are toward the west.<\/p>\n<p>A color adjustment has been made approximating a white balance, so that rocks and sand appear approximately as they would appear under Earth&#8217;s sunlit sky. A brightness adjustment accommodates including rover hardware in the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The mission&#8217;s examination of dunes in the Bagnold field, along the rover&#8217;s route up the lower slope of Mount Sharp, is the first close look at active sand dunes anywhere other than Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates the rover&#8217;s Mastcam. NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA&#8217;s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project&#8217;s Curiosity rover.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Curiosity, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/msl\" target=\"new\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/msl<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mars.jpl.nasa.gov\/msl\/\" target=\"new\">http:\/\/mars.jpl.nasa.gov\/msl\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Photojournal Note<\/b>: Also available is the full resolution TIFF file <a href=\"http:\/\/photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov\/tiff\/PIA20284_full.tif\">PIA20284_full.tif<\/a>. This file may be too large to view from a browser; it can be downloaded onto your desktop by right-clicking on the previous link and viewed with image viewing software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drag the cursor on this image to see the\u00a0360 degree view of the Namib Dune on Mars where the Curiosity rover was\u00a0exploring in December: Full-Circle Panorama Beside &#8216;Namib Dune&#8217; on Mars This view of the downwind face of &#8220;Namib Dune&#8221; on Mars covers 360 degrees, including a portion of Mount Sharp on the horizon. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Curiosity rover&#8217;s panoramic view of the Namib Dune on Mars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,36,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-multiple-media","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3ad","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6451,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6451","url_meta":{"origin":12165,"position":0},"title":"Curiosity: Crossing the sands of Mars + A panorama + Mapping the rover&#8217;s trek from orbit","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Mars Curiosity rover looks back over ira trek across a sand dune :\u00a0NASA's Curiosity Drives On After Crossing Martian Dune - NASA JPL\u00a0- NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is continuing its traverse toward enticing science destinations after climbing over a dune spanning a gap in a ridge. 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