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PIA12078: Variations in Soft Soil of 'Troy' (False Color)
The soft soil exposed when wheels of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit dug into a patch of ground dubbed 'Troy' exhibit variations in hue visible in this image, in which the colors have been stretched to emphasize the differences.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Spirit
 Instrument:  Panoramic Camera 
 Product Size:  1019 x 1024 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Cornell University 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA12078.tif (3.135 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA12078.jpg (228.9 kB)  

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The soft soil exposed when wheels of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit dug into a patch of ground dubbed "Troy" exhibit variations in hue visible in this image, in which the colors have been stretched to emphasize the differences.

Spirit used its panoramic camera during the 1,892nd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (April 29, 2009) to take the three images combined into this composite image. The three images were taken through filters centered at wavelengths of 750 nanometers, 530 nanometers and 430 nanometers. Spirit had become embedded at Troy by about a week later.

The two rocks near the upper right corner of this view are each about 10 centimeters (4 inches) long and 2 to 3 centimeters (1 inch) wide.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University

Image Addition Date:
2009-06-25