Note: Single-source report; awaiting corroboration.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover assembled a 360-degree panorama of the Nevado Sajama site from 1,031 images taken between November 9 and December 7, 2025, during sols 4,714 to 4,741 of the mission. The panorama measures 1.5 billion pixels, making it one of Curiosity's largest to date. Images were captured using the rover's Mastcam right camera with a 100-millimeter lens and later stitched together on Earth to form a full view.
The panorama shows terrain with boxwork formations—low ridges roughly 1 to 2 meters tall and about 9 meters across—interspersed with sandy hollows. These features extend for miles and resemble spiderwebs from orbit, but the ground-level panorama reveals greater detail.
The images were taken at a ridgetop nicknamed Nevado Sajama, where Curiosity recently drilled and collected a rock sample. Additionally, a lower-resolution panorama was created from 276 megabytes of data using the Mastcam left camera with a 34-millimeter lens, showing part of the rover's deck that is often omitted to save data transmission capacity.
Curiosity was developed and is operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, with Mastcam built and managed by Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego. JPL oversees the mission as part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program.