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PIA05236: Speckled with Spherules
This false-color image (purple surface and blue rock) taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights the spherules, or tiny spheres, that speckle the rock dubbed Stone Mountain.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Panoramic Camera 
 Product Size:  1025 x 1025 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Cornell University 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA05236.tif (3.156 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA05236.jpg (239.7 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:
This false-color image taken by the panoramic camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights the spherules, or tiny spheres, that speckle the rock dubbed Stone Mountain. The colors in this picture were exaggerated or stretched to enhance the real difference in color between Stone Mountain and its collection of granular spherules.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Cornell

Image Addition Date:
2004-02-09