Explanation:
If you could stand on Mars -- what could you see?
One memorable vista might be the
above 360-degree panoramic image taken by the
robotic Spirit rover over the last year.
The above image involved over 200 exposures and was released as part of
Spirit's
five year anniversary of landing on the red planet.
The image was
taken from the spot that Spirit stopped to spend the winter,
near an unusual plateau called
Home Plate.
Visible on the annotated image are
rocks,
hills,
peaks,
ridges,
plains inside
Gusevcrater,
and previous
tracks of the rolling Spirit rover.
The image color has been closely matched to what a human would see, and named for the famous
space artistChesley Bonestell.
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