Nasa rover captures incredible 360 vista of Mars that shows the red planet looking a lot like Earth

The rover that Nasa has been using to explore Mars in search of life has captured an incredible panorama of the planet that shows it looking a lot like Earth. The Curiosity Mars rover captured the vista on August 5, four years after the rover landed on Gale Crater. The view shows eroded mesas and buttes with a flat desert-like foreground, which looks eerily similar the southwestern US. Look familiar?: The buttes and mesas captured by Nasa's Curiosity rover on Mars look of similar shape and condition to parts of Earth, especially the southwestern US The surface seen in the footage is part of a geological layer called the Murray formation, which formed from lakebed mud deposits. Nasa said the dark mesa just left of Curiosity's robotic arm is about 50 feet high and 300 feet from the rover's position, theHuffington Post reported.