NASA's Curiosity rover recently snapped more than 130 images on the red planet's surface to create a stunning 360-degree panoramic view.

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The nearly 2,000 pound rover works tirelessly, if slowly, for its images. It can travel 30 meters per hour, or .01 miles per hour. Unfortunately, there is no auto-shop around so the rover is equipped with "hazard avoidance software" that forces Curiosity to painstakingly stop every 10 seconds to observe its surroundings for another 20 seconds before continuing on.

August marks the four-year anniversary of the rover landing on Mars. The images show "Murray Buttes," a geological feature named after a former director at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Not everything seen in the images is completely genuine. The pictures in the panoramic were slightly touched up.

"The scene is presented with a color adjustment that approximates white balancing, to resemble how the rocks and sand would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth," said a NASA news release.

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While NASA works to make these images more Earth-like, how close have filmmakers gotten to making their sets imitate Mars' terrain?

Ridley Scott's 2015 film "The Martian" was filmed in Wadi Rum, a protected desert area in Jordan. The dry valley was also the setting of three other films: Mission to Mars (2000), Red Planet (2000) and The Last Days on Mars (2013).

Check out the slideshow above to see how Curiosity's new pictures compare to Hollywood's recreation.