New 360-degree Mars video puts you on the surface of the red planet
 

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.*

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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...


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