PIA04982: First Look at Spirit at Landing Site
This is one of the first images beamed back to Earth shortly after NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit landed on the red planet in 2004.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Spirit
 Product Size:  256 x 256 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA04982.tif (65.83 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA04982.jpg (12.81 kB)  

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This is one of the first images beamed back to Earth shortly after the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit landed on the red planet.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
2004-01-04