Quick Time Movie for PIA04184
View from the Summit Animation
This approximate true-color panorama was taken by NASA's Spirit rover
after it successfully trekked to the top of "Husband Hill," in the "Columbia
Hills" of Gusev Crater. The "little rover that could" spent the last 14 months
climbing the hills in both the forward and reverse directions to reduce wear
on its wheels.
This breathtaking view from the summit reveals previously hidden southern
terrain called "Inner Basin"(center), where team members hope to direct
Spirit in the future. The rover left tracks to the left point toward the west,
the direction Spirit arrived from. The peaks of "McCool Hill" and "Ramon
Hill," both in the "Columbia Hills," can be seen just to the left and behind
Inner Basin.
The mosaic is made up of images taken by the rover's panoramic camera
over a period of three days (sols 583 to 585, or August 24 to 26, 2005).
It spans about 240 degrees in azimuth, and was acquired using 51 different
camera pointings and three camera filters (750, 530 and 480 nanometers).
Image-to-image seams have been eliminated from the sky portion of the
mosaic to better simulate what a person standing on Mars would see.
