NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a panoramic panorama of the within of the Gale Crater, as snapped by the Curiosity Rover. To rejoice the Rover’s ninth — ninth! — yr surveying the purple planet, the clip exhibits off the place the Rover has been, the place it’s going, and what we’ve realized within the final decade. This consists of the breathtaking incontrovertible fact that, on a transparent winter’s day when there’s no mud within the air, you’ll be able to see shut to twenty miles.

The panorama, as reported by Gizmodo, exhibits Curiosity’s journey up the aspect of Mount Sharp, and the detour it needed to take with a purpose to keep away from a big sheet of Martian sand. As the rover has journeyed up the aspect, the composition of the rocks had modified from a clay-rich base to at least one filled with sulphide. As Deputy Project Scientist Abigail Fraeman explains, researchers are hoping to study just a little extra about how Mars misplaced its water (the Gale Crater was a lake, in any case) and the way lengthy it took earlier than it turned the dry desert planet we see earlier than us.