Sols 53-63, Mastcam-Z 360° Panorama #3: “Van Zyl” Panorama
Taken from Ingenuity Initial Flight Viewing Zone
April 14-25, 2021
110-mm focal length, filters L0 and R0 (RGB)
BONUS! This special version of the mosaic below that includes the rover deck was publicly released by JPL/NASA at https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24663
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z stereo imaging system to capture this 360-degree panorama of “Van Zyl Overlook,” where the rover was parked for 13 days as the Ingenuity helicopter performed its first flights. Van Zyl Overlook is named after the late NASA/JPL Director for Solar System Exploration Jakob J. Van Zyl, who played a major role in the advocacy and development of many NASA robotic solar system missions.
The 2.4 billion-pixel panorama is made up of 992 individual right-eye Mastcam-Z images stitched together. The images were taken between April 15 and 26, 2021, or the 53rd and 64th Martian days, or sols, of the mission. View an interactive version of this image here. View an Augmented Reality (AR) version on YouTube here. You can also view the raw images yourself on the NASA/JPL Mars 2020 mission “Raw Images” web site. There you can find the nearly 1000 separate pairs of left-right images taken at Mastcam-Z’s maximum zoom setting (110-mm focal length) that span 360-degrees in azimuth around the rover, covering terrain from next to the rover all the way out to the horizon.
This version of the panorama also includes the addition of the rover’s deck as seen by its navigation cameras on March 20, 2021, the 31st sol of the mission.
A few small patches of near-field sand had been covered by parts of Perseverance when the right-eye Mastcam-Z images were taken; those gaps were filled with images of the same sandy patches taken by the Mastcam-Z left-eye camera at the same time, or from the earlier navigation camera images. Imaging coverage of the sky has also been digitally smoothed and expanded based on the actual sky color observed as the panorama was being acquired on Mars.
Full-resolution versions of this panorama without the rover superimposed are available at these links:
Standard mosaic versions below (no rover deck). NOTE: JPEG versions are provided at one-half best possible resolution, because the file size of Mastcam-Z 360° mosaics acquired at 110-mm zoom are too large for the JPEG file format!
03.01) Left eye color panorama, enhanced color: [Half Resolution JPEG (345 MB)] [Full Resolution PNG (2408 MB)] [Full Resolution TIFF (3932 MB)]
03.02) Left eye color panorama, natural color: [Half Resolution JPEG (317 MB)] [Full Resolution PNG (2189 MB)] [Full Resolution TIFF (3876 MB)]
03.03) Right eye color panorama, enhanced color: [Half Resolution JPEG (341 MB)] [Full Resolution PNG (2397 MB)] [Full Resolution TIFF (3935 MB)]
03.04) Right eye color panorama, natural color: [Half Resolution JPEG (318 MB)] [Full Resolution PNG (2202 MB)] [Full Resolution TIFF (3896 MB)]
03.05) Left/Right eye RED channel anaglyph panorama, enhanced stretch: [Half Resolution JPEG (356 MB)] [Full Resolution PNG (2254 MB)] [Full Resolution TIFF (3489 MB)]
03.06) Left/Right eye BLUE channel anaglyph panorama, enhanced stretch: [Half Resolution JPEG (367 MB)] [Full Resolution PNG (2391 MB)] [Full Resolution TIFF (3457 MB)]
03.07) Left/Right eye RGB colorglyph panorama, natural color stretch: [Half Resolution JPEG (323 MB)] [Full Resolution PNG (2223 MB)] [Full Resolution TIFF (4196 MB)]
03.08) Vertical Projection panorama out to 5 m from rover, enhanced color: [Full Resolution JPEG (92 MB)] [Full Resolution PNG (175 MB)] [Full Resolution TIFF (244 MB)]
03.09) Vertical Projection panorama out to 5 m from rover, natural color: [Full Resolution JPEG (83 MB)] [Full Resolution PNG (158 MB)] [Full Resolution TIFF (236 MB)]
03.10) Vertical Projection panorama out to 50 m from rover, enhanced color: [Full Resolution JPEG (101 MB)] [Full Resolution PNG (211 MB)] [Full Resolution TIFF (317 MB)]
03.11) Vertical Projection panorama out to 50 m from rover, natural color: [Full Resolution JPEG (83 MB)] [Full Resolution PNG (177 MB)] [Full Resolution TIFF (297 MB)]
Full-resolution versions of this panorama that just showcase the detail along part of the horizon are available at these links:
Horizon-only: [Full resolution JPG] [Full resolution PNG] [Full resolution TIFF]
This partial section of the full Van Zyl panorama just shows the horizon view, spanning about 180-degrees in azimuth from roughly due south (left side) to due north (right side) of the rover. This part of the full mosaic was featured in a NASA/JPL Media Briefing about the success of the Ingenuity helicopter’s tech demo mission, as well as in testimony to Congress summarizing some of the early successes of the Mars 2020 mission.
Click here for the full collection of Mastcam-Z 360° Panoramas!
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS.
April 25, 2021