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04-28-2016, 02:51 AM
New 360-degree Mars video puts you on the surface of the red planet
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A new NASA video lets you see what it's like to be a rover exploring a vast crater on Mars.*
The 360-degree video shows a pa**rama taken during the after**on of April 4 on the red planet from the perspective of NASA's Curiosity rover, a car-sized spacecraft that has been piecing together Mars' history from the Gale Crater since the rover landed in 2012.*
In this pa**rama, Mars looks strangely Earth-like with its grey-blue sky and mountai**us terrain.*
SEE ALSO: Elon Musk's SpaceX wants to send a spacecraft to Mars by 2018 (http://mashable.com/2016/04/27/spacex-elon-musk-mars-mission/)
According to a NASA statement, some of the pa**ramic images taken from*Naukluft Plateau (shown in the video) were shot from the "highest viewpoints" Curiosity has reached, producing a beautiful scene of the Martian landscape.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/27/mars-360-video-nasa-curiosity-rover/)
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A new NASA video lets you see what it's like to be a rover exploring a vast crater on Mars.*
The 360-degree video shows a pa**rama taken during the after**on of April 4 on the red planet from the perspective of NASA's Curiosity rover, a car-sized spacecraft that has been piecing together Mars' history from the Gale Crater since the rover landed in 2012.*
In this pa**rama, Mars looks strangely Earth-like with its grey-blue sky and mountai**us terrain.*
SEE ALSO: Elon Musk's SpaceX wants to send a spacecraft to Mars by 2018 (http://mashable.com/2016/04/27/spacex-elon-musk-mars-mission/)
According to a NASA statement, some of the pa**ramic images taken from*Naukluft Plateau (shown in the video) were shot from the "highest viewpoints" Curiosity has reached, producing a beautiful scene of the Martian landscape.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/27/mars-360-video-nasa-curiosity-rover/)
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