Click on the image for 'Santa Anita' Panorama (QTVR)
This color mosaic taken on May 21, 25 and 26, 2004, by the panoramic
camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit was acquired from a
position roughly three-fourths the way between "Bonneville Crater" and
the base of the "Columbia Hills." The area is within a low thermal
inertia unit (an area that heats up and cools off quickly) identified
from orbit by the Mars Odyssey thermal emission imaging system instrument.
The rover was roughly 600 meters (1,968 feet) from the base of the hills.
This mosaic, referred to as the "Santa Anita Panorama," is comprised of
64 pointings, acquired with six of the panoramic camera's color filters,
including one designed specifically to allow comparisons between orbital
and surface brightness data. A total of 384 images were acquired as part
of this panorama. The mosaic is an approximate true-color rendering
constructed from images using the camera's 750-, 530- and and
480-nanometer filters, and is presented at the full resolution of the
camera.
