Left-eye view of a color stereo pair for PIA12125
Right-eye view of a color stereo pair for PIA12125
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to
take the images combined into this stereo, 360-degree view of the rover's
surroundings on the 1,850th Martian day, or sol, of its surface mission
(April 7, 2009). The view appears three-dimensional when viewed through
red-blue glasses with the red lens on the left.
Opportunity had driven 62.5 meters (205 feet) that sol, southward away
from an outcrop called "Penrhyn," which the rover had been examining for a
few sols, and toward a crater called "Adventure." In preceding drives, the
drive motor for the right-front wheel had been drawing more current than
usual, so engineers drove Opportunuity backward on Sol 1950, a strategy to
redistribute lubricant and reduce friction in the wheel.
North is at the top of the image; south at the bottom. Opportunity's
position on Sol 1850 was about 1.3 kilometers (0.8 mile) south-southwest
of Victoria Crater. For scale, the distance between the parallel wheel
tracks is about 1 meter (about 40 inches).
This panorama combines right-eye and left-eye views presented as
cylindrical-perspective projections with geometric seam correction.