Mars 360: NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover - Sol 106 (360video 8K)

To Bump Or Not To Bump

The images for panorama obtained by the rover/'s 34-millimeter Mast Camera. The mosaic, which stretches about 30,000 pixels width, includes 121 images taken on Sol 106 (November 23, 2012).

There was a lot of discussion of whether to /"bump/" the rover a few meters farther to improve the view toward Yellowknife Bay, our near-term drive objective. I was SOWG Chair for this first of 2 /"multisol/" plans which would allow the operations team to take a break during the Thanksgiving holiday. Because it was the first time we had planned more than one sol/'s worth of activities at a time, we kept the plan simple. In addition to the Mastcam mosaics, we planned some atmospheric observations and DAN (neutron spectrometer) measurements in our new location.

Written by Ken Herkenhoff
USGS Scientist


NASA/'s Mars Exploration Program
Source images credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS
Stitching and retouching: Andrew Bodrov / 360pano.eu (https://tinyurl.com/sol0106)

Music in this video
Song: Numen
Artist: The Intangible (https://ambrosia57.bandcamp.com/)

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