Click on the image for "Independence" Panorama (QTVR)
This is the Spirit "Independence" panorama, acquired on martian days, or
sols, 536 to 543 (July 6 to 13, 2005), from a position in the "Columbia
Hills" near the summit of "Husband Hill." The summit of "Husband Hill" is
the peak near the right side of this panorama and is about 100 meters (328
feet) away from the rover and about 30 meters (98 feet) higher in
elevation. The rocky outcrops downhill and on the left side of this mosaic
include "Larry's Lookout" and "Cumberland Ridge," which Spirit explored in
April, May, and June of 2005.
The panorama spans 360 degrees and consists of 108 individual images,
each acquired with five filters of the rover's panoramic camera. The
approximate true color of the mosaic was generated using the camera's
750-, 530-, and 480-nanometer filters. During the 8 martian days, or
sols, that it took to acquire this image, the lighting varied
considerably, partly because of imaging at different times of sol, and
partly because of small sol-to-sol variations in the dustiness of the
atmosphere. These slight changes produced some image seams and rock
shadows. These seams have been eliminated from the sky portion of the
mosaic to better simulate the vista a person standing on Mars would see.
However, it is often not possible or practical to smooth out such seams
for regions of rock, soil, rover tracks or solar panels. Such is the
nature of acquiring and assembling large panoramas from the rovers.