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Description	English: PIA16551: Sol 120 Panorama from Curiosity, near 'Shaler' http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16551 Target Name: Mars Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun) Mission: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Spacecraft: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Instrument: Navcam (MSL) Product Size: 5012 x 988 pixels (width x height) Produced By: JPL Full-Res TIFF: PIA16551.tif (4.96 MB) Full-Res JPEG: PIA16551.jpg (606.5 kB) Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format (possibly reduced in size from original) Original Caption Released with Image: The NASA Mars rover Curiosity used its Navigation Camera (Navcam) during the mission's 120th Martian day, or sol (Dec. 7, 2012), to record the seven images combined into this panoramic view. The scene spans from north-northwest at the left to south-southwest at the right, and is presented in a cylindrical projection. The layered outcrop in the foreground is called "Shaler." NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover. For more about NASA's Curiosity mission, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl, http://www.nasa.gov/mars, and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Image Addition Date: 2012-12-11
Date	12 December 2012, 09:06:43
Source	http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16551.jpg
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech

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