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#Curiosity's 360-Degree Panorama of 'Avanavero' Drill Site! #NASA’s Curiosity #Mars #rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to take this 360-degree panorama of at the “Avanavero” drill site. The panorama is made up of 127 individual images taken on June 20, 2022, the 3,509th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, and stitched together back on Earth. The color has been adjusted to match the lighting conditions as the human eye would perceive them on Earth. At this location, Curiosity used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a rock sample for analysis by laboratory instruments inside the vehicle. It has collected more than three dozen such samples in its decade on the #RedPlanet. The last image was captured by Curiosity on Sept. 9, 2015, when NASA’s Mars rover was many miles from its current location. #JPL #engineering #exploration #spacecraft #science