{"id":618257,"date":"2026-09-16T21:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618257\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:58:11","slug":"nasas-curiosity-rover-celebrates-5000-days-on-mars-with-a-new-postcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618257\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover celebrates 5,000 days on Mars with a new \u201cpostcard.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted Sep 16, 2026 at 6:11 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover celebrates 5,000 days on Mars with a new \u201cpostcard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The shot marks <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/photojournal\/curiosity-postcard-celebrates-rovers-5000th-day-on-mars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">14 years since Curiosity landed<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/science\/973314\/nasa-curiosity-rover-mars-polygons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martian surface<\/a> in 2012. NASA created it by merging two black-and-white panoramas from Curiosity\u2019s navigation cameras then added color \u201cfor an artistic interpretation of the scene, with blue representing the morning panorama and yellow representing the afternoon one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"_1pegheu1\" href=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/nasa-mars-curiosity-5000-days-on-mars-panorama.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=10.625,0,78.75,100\" data-pswp-height=\"1050\" data-pswp-width=\"1575.0000000000002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"A panorama of the Martian surface from NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover from September 2026\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 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