- Original Caption Released with Image:
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This map highlights the path that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit
has traveled and will continue to travel toward the "Columbia Hills." As
of today, sol 114 (April 28, 2004), Spirit has driven about 1,315 meters
(.82 miles). Light patches of color surrounding various craters are areas
that were predicted to be material ejected from those craters. The
predictions were based on observatons from orbit. Spirit's observations
of the rocks and soils along this route so far confirm those predictions.
The map comprises data from the camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor
orbiter and the thermal emission imaging system on NASA's Mars Odyssey
orbiter.
- Image Credit:
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NASA/JPL/MSSS/ASU/New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
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