FREMONT, CA — Yash Talreja took these gorgeous photos from the Vargas Plateau in Fremont. The first shows rays of the sun penetrating a small section of clouds. To Yash, the scene looked like ...

Curiosity captured both the sun rays and iridescent clouds as panoramas, each of which was stitched together from 28 images sent to Earth. The images have been processed to emphasize the highlights.