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Astronomy Picture of the Day
West Valley Panorama from the Spirit Rover on Mars
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#105441
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[z]Barbara Harris
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30.01.2008 00:00
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West Valley Panorama from the Spirit Rover on Mars
Explanation: What does Mars look like from here? Last September, before hiking across rugged and
slippery terrain
to reach its winter hibernation point, the
robotic Spirit rover
climbed a small plateau known as
Home Plate
and captured the spectacular vista
pictured above
. Part of the
curious flat-topped Home Plate
is visible as the light colored landscape across the panorama's foreground. On the image left, visible about eight kilometers in the distance, is
Grissom Hill
, while on the left foreground is rock strewn
Tsiolkovski
Ridge. On the right, at about 800 meters distant, is
Husband Hill
, already explored by Spirit and notable as the
highest point
visible in the westward looking panorama. In the inset is a close-up of a tiny, motionless feature
informally dubbed Little Bigfoot
that has
drawn
some
attention
for it
superficial appearance
to a
humanoid life form
. Tenacious image explorers might locate Little
Bigfoot
towards the front left of the
high resolution panorama
. Spirit successfully
reached
its energy-conserving
winter haven
in December.
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#105452
by
Squeezer
@
30.01.2008 18:03
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cool, do gseht mer mol es paar bauteili vo nöchem. s'einte gseht us wiene sunneuhr.