PIA07977: Close-up of 'Keystone' on 'Methuselah' Outcrop
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Spacecraft:  Spirit
 Instrument:  Microscopic Imager
 Product Size:  5626 x 3784 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Producer ID:  2005-085
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA07977.tif (21.32 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA07977.jpg (3.111 MB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This mosaic of 24 frames from the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the texture of a target called "Keystone" on the "Methuselah" outcrop of layered rock on "Husband Hill" inside Mars' Gusev Crater. The images were taken on Spirit's 469th martian day, or "sol (April 28, 2005). The target area shows fine layers that may have been deposited by wind or water. The individual frames are each 3 centimeters (1.2 inches) across and they overlap slightly in this array of six frames horizontally by four frames vertically. The target was fully shadowed when the images were acquired. The scale of the images (31 microns or one one-thousandth of an inch per pixel) allows features as small as 0.1 millimeter (four one-thousandths of an inch) to be resolved.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Cornell/USGS

Image Addition Date:
2005-05-24