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PIA11977: View Ahead After Spirit's Sol 1861 Drive (Stereo)
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity combined images into this stereo, 360-degree view on March 28-30, 2009. In this view, the western edge of Home Plate is on the portion of the horizon farthest to the left. 3D glasses are necessary.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Spirit
 Instrument:  Navigation Camera 
 Product Size:  5073 x 1188 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Other  
Information: 		 You will need 3D glasses 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA11977.tif (18.08 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA11977.jpg (625.3 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Left-eye view of a color stereo pair for PIA11977
Left-eye view of a color stereo pair for PIA11977
Right-eye view of a stereo pair for PIA11977
Right-eye view of a color stereo pair for PIA11977

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this stereo, 210-degree view of the rover's surroundings during the 1,861st to 1,863rd Martian days, or sols, of Spirit's surface mission (March 28 to 30, 2009).

This view combines images from the left-eye and right-eye sides of the navigation camera. It appears three-dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses with the red lens on the left.

The center of the scene is toward the south-southwest. East is on the left. West-northwest is on the right.

The rover had driven 22.7 meters (74 feet) southwestward on Sol 1861 before beginning to take the frames in this view. The drive brought Spirit past the northwestern corner of Home Plate.

In this view, the western edge of Home Plate is on the portion of the horizon farthest to the left. A mound in middle distance near the center of the view is called "Tsiolkovsky" and is about 40 meters (about 130 feet) from the rover's position.

This view is presented as a cylindrical-perspective projection with geometric seam correction.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2009-04-05