Click on the image for Legacy Panorama on Spirit's Way to 'Bonneville' (QTVR)
This view captured by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration
Rover Spirit nearly a year ago is called Spirit's "Legacy" panorama. It
combines many frames acquired during Spirit's 59th through 61st martian
days, or sols (March 3 to 5, 2004) from a position about halfway between
the landing site and the rim of "Bonneville Crater." The location is
within the transition from the relatively smooth plains to the more rocky
and rugged blanket of material ejected from Bonneville by the force of
the impact that dug the crater.
The panorama spans 360 degrees and consists of images obtained in 78
individual pointings. The camera took images though 5 different filter at
each pointing. This mosaic is an approximately true-color rendering
generated using the images acquired through filters centered at
wavelengths of 750, 530, and 480 nanometers.
The Columbia Memorial Station lander can be seen about 200 meters (about
650 feet) in the distance by following the rover tracks back toward right
of center in the mosaic and zooming in.
