Mars Panorama - Curiosity Rover: Martian Night

Red Planet, Mars

December 6, 2013, 02:30 local time

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Digital Art Compilation

Curiosity Rover's Self Portrait at "John Klein" Drilling Site NASA's Mars Exploration Program (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

VISTA telescope: 9 billion pixel photo of a Milky Way European Southern Observatory (Image credit: ESO/VVV Consortium, Ignacio Toledo, Martin Kornmesser)

Story was begin when one (well known) agency ordered Curiosity Rover's Self Portrait panorama with black sky for use as a book cover illustration. I was make image as they requested, but then think: black sky looks not very good. What if I'll put Milky Way there?

So I just make composite photo from two sources: http://www.360cities.net/image/mars-panorama-curiosity-solar-day-177 and http://www.360pano.eu/show/?id=736

But of course it not represent real view of Mars sky - I have no any references to make it.

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Artistica / Panoramic Paintings

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Precision is: Suppressed. Will not show on map.

Equipment

Curiosity rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) and MastCam

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