NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers capture sweeping Mars panoramas (video)
By Samantha Mathewson
Published on May 1, 2026.
NASA has released two new panoramas from its Mars rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance, showing how dramatically different regions of the Red Planet can be explored. The images, created using hundreds of individual images, reveal how each mission is uncovering a distinct chapter of Martian history. The panorama was taken of an area nicknamed "Lac de Charmes" near the rim of the planet, which Curiosity has been exploring since its February 2021. The contrast highlights the complementary goals of the two missions, Curiosity focusing on understanding whether Mars once offered habitable conditions and whether it could ever have hosted life. The new images effectively place them side by side, offering a planetary comparison in unprecedented detail.
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