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NASA Releases Spectacular 360-Degree View of Mars
NASA Releases Spectacular 360-Degree View of Mars
Sep 21, 2024 10:02 PM

It's the closest we've gotten so far to the true Mars experience –NASA recently released an interactive, 360-degree video that allows users to navigate up, down, left, and right to see exactly what the Curiosity rover sees as it explores the Namib Dune.

According to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the near Mount Sharp, which is visible on the horizon.

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The new video is the second attempt at an interactive 360-degree image stitched together from lots of photos of Mars. NASA posted a to the Curiosity rover's Facebook page last week.

In a press release, NASA writes: "The mission's examination of dunes in the Bagnold field, along the rover's route up the lower slope of Mount Sharp, is the first close look at active sand dunes anywhere other than Earth."

As you can see in the video, it's totally out of this world.

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