Mars - Mastcam-Z’s 360-degree View of “Van Zyl Overlook“

Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z stereo imaging system to capture this 360-degree panorama at “Van Zyl Overlook”, where the rover was parked for 13 days as the Ingenuity helicopter performed its first flights. The 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. An additional version of the panorama has been provided as Figure B which 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 bee