Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2021 March 25 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. Curiosity: Sol 3048 Image Credit: [3]NASA/JPL-Caltech - Processing: [4]Elisabetta Bonora & Marco Faccin / aliveuniverse.today Explanation: Before [5]Perseverance there was Curiosity. In fact, the Curiosity rover accomplished the first [6]sky crane maneuver touchdown on Mars on April 5, 2012. March 2, 2021 marked Curiosity's 3,048th martian day operating on the surface of the Red Planet. [7]This 360 degree panorama from [8]sol 3048 is a mosaic of 149 frames from Curiosity's Mastcam above the rover's deck. It includes 23 frames of [9]icy, thin, high clouds drifting through the martian sky. The cloudy sky frames were recorded throughout that martian day and are digitally stitched together in the panoramic view. Near center is a layered and streaked [10]Mont Mercou. The peak of central [11]Mount Sharp, rising over 5 kilometers above the floor of Gale Crater, is in the distant background on the left. Tomorrow's picture: serpentine __________________________________________________________________ [12]< | [13]Archive | [14]Submissions | [15]Index | [16]Search | [17]Calendar | [18]RSS | [19]Education | [20]About APOD | [21]Discuss | [22]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [23]Robert Nemiroff ([24]MTU) & [25]Jerry Bonnell ([26]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [27]Specific rights apply. [28]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [29]ASD at [30]NASA / [31]GSFC & [32]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2103/sol3048curiosityBonoraFaccin.jpg 3. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory-curiosity-rover-msl 4. https://twitter.com/EliBonora 5. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210226.html 6. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/gallery/pia14839.html 7. https://www.flickr.com/photos/lunexit/51049546816/ 8. https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cinstrument_sort+asc%2Csample_type_sort+asc%2C+date_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=msl&begin_sol=3048&end_sol=3048 9. https://earthsky.org/space/how-meteors-create-mars-clouds 10. https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/8893/sols-3062-3063-adjusting-the-lighting-on-mont-mercou/ 11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130427.html 12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210324.html 13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 16. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 21. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=210325 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210326.html 23. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 24. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 25. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 26. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 28. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 29. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 30. https://www.nasa.gov/ 31. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 32. http://www.mtu.edu/