color mosaic taken on May 21 25 and 26 2004 by the panoramic camera on NASA s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit
This color mosaic taken on May 21 25 and 26 2004 by the panoramic camera on NASA s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit was acquired from a position roughly three fourths the way between Bonneville Crater and the base of the Columbia Hills The area is within a low thermal inertia unit an area that heats up and cools off quickly identified from orbit by the Mars Odyssey thermal emission imaging system instrument The rover was roughly 600 meters 1 968 feet from the base of the hills This mosaic referred to as the Santa Anita Panorama is comprised of 64 pointings acquired with six of the panoramic camera s color filters including one designed specifically to allow comparisons between orbital and surface brightness data A total of 384 images were acquired as part of this panorama The mosaic is an approximate true color rendering constructed from images using the camera s 750 530 and and 480 nanometer filters and is presented at the full resolution of the camera
Size: 22347px × 2639px
Photo credit: © NASA / S.Dupuis / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: exploration, land, mars, nasa, planet, red, rover, science, solar, space, spirit, surface, system, terrain, topography
