NASA Curiosity rover reveals a stunning panorama of the Martian landscape

An incredible panoramic view sent from the surface of the red planet has been created using images taken by the Mars Curiosity rover.

It reveals the landscape of one of our closest galactic neighbours, which has been home to the exploratory vehicle since it landed in Gale Crater in 2012, the Daily Mail reports.

One of the on-board cameras captured 16 separate scenic images that show various points on its journey, as seen from the top of the Vera Rubin Ridge, which were then stitched together to form the sweeping image.

Thanks to some clever visual effects that give the scene a blue hue, rather than the distinctive rusty red normally associated with Mars, the vista takes on a strangely familiar appearance to earthling eyes.

Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, released the panorama, which gives an overview of the rover's path along the crater's outer edge, although the photos themselves were all taken on October 25, 2017, by Curiosity's Mast Camera, or Mastcam.

At an elevation of 327 metres (1,073 feet) the image looks over the crater, which is about 3.5 to 3.8 billion years old and covers an area 96 miles (154 kilometres) in diameter - about the same size as Rhode Island and Connecticut combined.

Most of the scene's horizon is the crater's northern rim, around 1.2 miles (two kilometres) above the rover.

Due to the incredibly thin atmosphere of the planet, a mountain that is more than 50 miles (80 km) away can be seen in the background of the stunning shot.