At 15:57:23 UTC the Mastcam Left has taken again the inner rim of the Gale crater as in the previous photo of twelve days ago (see https://www.facebook.com/PianetaMarte.MdM/photos/a.1625578140858706/2775275522555623/).
It is 14:20:58 LTST (local solar time) and the Sun has been soaring for a while at its maximum height above the horizon. No temperature data are available yet for this Sun, but until a few days ago the maximum ground temperatures were barely above 0°C
You can see a faint haze and cloud on the horizon, probably “normal” at this time of day, as can easily be seen in the previously taken photos.
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 noise reduction 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.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/02710/mcam/2710ML0141950001003781C00_DXXX.jpg
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