This 'postcard' of a Mars day from NASA's Curiosity rover is gorgeous (photo)

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas of "Marker Band Valley" at two times of day on April 8, 2023. Color was added to a combination of both panoramas for an artistic interpretation of the scene.  (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA's Curiosity rover has sent home a stunning postcard from Mars that shows the same region of the Red Planet in the morning and in the afternoon. 

The scenic view of the Marker Band Valley was created by uniting two panoramas of the region that Curiosity took on April 8, 2023 with its black-and-white navigation cameras. One panorama was taken at 9:20 a.m. local Mars time, whereas the other was snapped at 3:40 p.m. local time.