It may be a while before you can jump on a rocket to the Red Planet, but you can check out the view in the meantime.
Just because you can’t catch a shuttle to Mars quite yet doesn’t mean you can’t still tour the Red Planet. This week, NASA released a video showcasing a panoramic tour of the planet’s surface using images snapped by its Curiosity rover, which celebrates its ninth year on Mars this month. The rover captured the 360-degree view on July 3 near “Rafael Navarro Mountain,” a hill NASA has nicknamed after an astrobiologist who worked on the mission and passed away in January. The panorama is made up of 129 individual images stitched together, and its colors have been white-balanced to replicate how Mars would appear under the kind of daylight we’re used to here on Earth, NASA said in a press release.
