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PIA04180: Looking Up from the Deep
On June 19, 2005, NASA's Spirit rover took this true-color panorama nicknamed 'Sunset Ridge' showing the terrain that lay ahead of the rover.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Spirit
 Instrument:  Panoramic Camera 
 Product Size:  8529 x 3113 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Cornell University 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA04180.tif (79.65 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA04180.jpg (2.092 MB)  
 QuickTime VR:  PIA04180.mov (2.358 MB)

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Not long after conducting extensive investigations of tilted martian rock layers along its path, NASA's Spirit rover prepared to resume the trek to the top of the "Columbia Hills" in June. This panorama, nicknamed "Sunset Ridge," shows the terrain that lay ahead of the rover on Spirit's 519th martian day, or sol (June 19, 2005). On the left is the summit of "Husband Hill," Spirit's objective at that time.

This mosaic of images is an approximate true-color rendering of snapshots taken by the rover's panoramic camera using 750-, 530-, and 430-nanometer filters. Spirit took these images at approximately 3 p.m. local true solar time in Gusev Crater on Mars. The rover then continued to climb throughout July, making numerous scientific investigations of martian rocks along the way.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Cornell

Image Addition Date:
2005-08-31