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Curiosity's Front View, Linearized

This is a version of one of the first images taken by a front Hazard-Avoidance camera on NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). It was taken through a "fisheye" wide-angle lens but has been "linearized" so that the horizon looks flat rather than curved. The image has also been cropped. The fisheye version is available at PIA15969 . It is one-quarter of full resolution. As planned, the rover's early engineering images are low resolution.

Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Image released by NASA on 2012-08-06 as catalog id PIA15977