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PIA05091: Spirit and Its Now-Empty Mother Ship
This overhead polar image was captured after NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took a few baby rolls away from the spacecraft that bore it millions of miles to Mars in 2004. The empty lander is seen to the right of the rover.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Spirit
 Instrument:  Navigation Camera 
 Product Size:  4713 x 4713 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA05091.tif (12.14 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA05091.jpg (1.816 MB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This overhead polar image was captured after the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took a few baby rolls away from the spacecraft that bore it millions of miles to Mars. The empty lander, now named the Columbia Memorial Station, can be seen to the right of the rover. This image was taken by Spirit's navigation camera.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
2004-01-16