In Stunning Color, Mars Vistas Change With the Light

NASA's Curiosity rover captured a colorful panoramic postcard of Mars from Marker Band Valley, an area that once held an ancient river.
Curiosity took two black-and-white photos at different times of the Martian day and NASA colorized and combined them.
The 3.5 billion-year-old geological feature is in the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-high mountain in Mars' Gale Crater.
After a software upgrade, Curiosity used its navigation cameras to take the photos that show the valley landscape transformed by the movement of shadows between morning and mid-afternoon.
The images also captured Curiosity itself, including its antennae and plutonium power source that should keep the rover operational for years to come.