Click on the image for On the Rim of 'Erebus' (QTVR)
This is the Opportunity panoramic camera's "Erebus Rim" panorama, acquired
on sols 652 to 663 (Nov. 23 to Dec. 5, 2005 ), as NASA's Mars Exploration
Rover Opportunity was exploring sand dunes and outcrop rocks in Meridiani
Planum. The panorama originally consisted of 635 separate images in four
different Pancam filters, and covers 360 degrees of terrain around the
rover and the full rover deck. Since the time that this panorama was
acquired, and while engineers have been diagnosing and testing
Opportunity's robotic arm, the panorama has been expanded to include more
than 1,300 images of this terrain through all of the Pancam multispectral
filters. It is the largest panorama acquired by either rover during the
mission.
The panorama shown here is an approximate true-color rendering using
Pancam's 750 nanometer, 530 nanometer and 430 nanometer filters. It is
presented here as a cylindrical projection. Image-to-image seams have
been eliminated from the sky portion of the mosaic to better simulate the
vista a person standing on Mars would see.
This panorama provides the team's highest resolution view yet of the
finely-layered outcrop rocks, wind ripples, and small cobbles and grains
along the rim of the wide but shallow "Erebus" crater. Once the arm
diagnostics and testing are completed, the team hopes to explore other
layered outcrop rocks at Erebus and then eventually continue southward
toward the large crater known as "Victoria."
