NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Morning Afternoon
NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a postcard-worthy image of ‘Marker Band Valley’ before rolling away. More specifically, two black-and-white panoramas captured by Curiosity’s navigation cameras on April 8 at 9:20 a.m. and 3:40 p.m. local Mars time were colorized.


NASA Curiosity Rover Morning Afternoon Mars
These two combined images provide dramatically different lighting that that makes details in the scene really stand out. Blue was added to parts of the postcard captured in the morning and yellow to parts taken later during the day. It also helped that the images were captured in the Martian winter, a period of lower airborne dust.

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Anyone who’s been to a national park knows the scene looks different in the morning than it does in the afternoon. Capturing two times of day provides dark shadows because the lighting is coming in from the left and the right, like you might have on a stage – but instead of stage lights, we’re relying on the Sun,” said Doug Ellison, Curiosity Engineer of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.