PIA05837: Things Aren't Always What They Seem
This mosaic was assembled from images taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit at a region dubbed 'site 31.' Spirit is looking at 'Missoula Crater.'
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Spirit
 Instrument:  Panoramic Camera 
 Product Size:  7659 x 1044 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Cornell University 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA05837.tif (7.372 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA05837.jpg (1.276 MB)  

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This mosaic was assembled from images taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit at a region dubbed "site 31." Spirit is looking at "Missoula Crater." From orbit, the features within the crater appeared to be ejecta from the younger "Bonneville Crater," but Spirit's closer look revealed wind-blown drift deposits, not ejecta, within Missoula Crater.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Cornell

Image Addition Date:
2004-04-29