NASA releases new panoramic image of Mars to celebrate Curiosity rover's 9th anniversary

NASA has marked the Curiosity rover's ninth anniversary on Mars by unveiling a new panoramic image of the Martian landscape, a locale that may explain why the Red Planet became dry. The panoramic image, which was put together on July 3 by stitching 129 individual images together, shows Curiosity's current home, Mount Sharp, a 5-mile-tall mountain inside Mars' Gale Crater. NASA marked the Curiosity rover's ninth anniversary on Mars by unveiling a new panoramic image. The image was created by the rover's Mast Camera, or Mastcam. Upon arrival at Mount Sharp in 2014, Curiosity has been traveling up the rock formation for the past several years.