NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures First Full Day on Mars

Despite hopes for capturing weather anomalies, the time-lapse images reveal a tranquil Martian day.

NASA's Curiosity Rover has captured a full day on Mars, from dawn to dusk, for the first time in its decade-long mission.
The time-lapse videos were taken during a two-week stationary period in November 2023, during a Mars solar conjunction when the sun lies directly between Mars and Earth.
The rover's shadow can be seen moving across the Martian terrain over 12 hours of sunlight in the black and white images.
Despite hopes of capturing weather anomalies such as cloud or dust devil activity, the images did not reveal any such events.
The Curiosity Rover has been exploring Mars since 2012, navigating around the Gale Crater and Mount Sharp, and has so far collected 39 soil samples for analysis.