Mars Exploration Rover Spirit Mission, Home Plate
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit acquired this high-resolution view of intricately layered exposures of rock while parked on the northwest edge of the bright, semi-circular feature known as "Home Plate." The rover was perched at a 27-degree upward tilt while creating the panorama, resulting in the "U" shape of the mosaic. In reality, the features along the 1-meter to 2-meter (3-foot to 6-foot) vertical exposure of the rim of Home Plate in this vicinity are relatively level. Rocks near the rover in this view, known as the "Gibson" panorama, include "Barnhill," "Rogan," and "Mackey." Spirit took this panorama of 246 separate images using 6 different filters on the Pancam on martian days, or sols, 748-751 (Feb. 9-12, 2006). The field of view in this cylindrical projection covers 160 degrees of terrain from side to side. This image is an approximate true-color rendering using Pancam's 753-nanometer, 535-namometer, and 432-nanometer filters. Image-to-image seams have been eliminated from the sky portion of the mosaic to better simulate the vista a person standing on Mars would see.
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Photo credit: © Photo Researchers / Alamy / Afripics
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