NASA said Curiosity rover captures panoramic view

NASA’s Curiosity rover has beamed back a 360-degree panoramic view of the Martian landscape, revealing reddish-brown skies darkened by a fading global dust storm that has enshrouded the red planet for weeks.

The rover surveyed surroundings after collecting a new rock sample on August 9. Its last two drill attempts were thwarted unexpectedly by hard rocks, NASA said.

The rover has never encountered a place with variations in colour and texture, according to Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity’s project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the US.