At 21:04:18 UTC the Mastcam Left has captured this suggestive hillock of stratified rocks with a beautiful blue sky in the background, slightly veiled by haze.
We are slightly east of the mound we know well, towards which Curiosity is heading.
The original image is a black and white encoding of the Bayer mask that has been converted to color through a process called “debayering” or “demosaicing”. In addition, the photo has undergone a reduction of noise due to Jpeg compression, white balance and a slight increase in microcontrast and color saturation in order to make the colors more similar to what the human eye would see.
Original image: https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/02575/mcam/2575ML0135250130706142C00_DXXX.jpg
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