17 January 2009

Mars panorama photo


This is not the same panorama photo I linked to last July, which was taken by the Phoenix lander in the middle of a desert. This one comes from the Spirit rover stationed on top of a hill:
Spirit was instructed to take images having the same resolution as a human with 20-20 eyesight. The full panoramic result can be found by clicking on the above image and has a level of detail unparalleled in the history of Martian surface photography. The panorama was taken from the pinnacle of Husband Hill and has been dubbed the Everest panorama, in honor of the view from the tallest mountain on Earth. Visible in Gusev Crater are rocks, rusting sand, a Martian sundial, vast plains, nearby peaks, faraway peaks, and sand drifts. In the distance, fast moving dust devils can be seen as slight apparitions of red, green, or blue, the colors of filters used to build up this natural color vista.
The image embedded above isn't panoramic. To see the full grandeur of the view, go to the NASA link and click on the image there.

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