NASA’s Curiosity rover snaps extremely detailed ‘postcard’ of Martian landscape after waking up from a ‘brain-boosting nap

NASA’s Curiosity rover just lately snapped a stunningly detailed “postcard” of the Martian panorama, exhibiting the daylight shifting between morning and afternoon. The wandering robotic beamed the picturesque scene again to Earth shortly after waking up from a “mind boosting nap.”

The rover captured the souvenir April 8, or Sol 3,794 (Martian days) of its mission, shortly earlier than leaving the Marker Band Valley, a area the place it found indicators of an historical lake in 2022. The photoshoot was one of many first actions Curiosity accomplished after hibernating for a software program replace between April 3 and April 7, which included 180 particular person upgrades — crucial of which is able to enable the rover to course of photos of its environment quicker and scale back put on on its tires, which is able to assist it to maneuver a lot faster throughout the Martian panorama, Dwell Science’s sister website Area.com reported.