Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Title:
Spirit's Winter Home
Original Caption Released with Image:

Annotated Version

This is a portion of an image called the "McMurdo Panorama," taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's Spirit rover during its winter campaign of 2006. The view is looking toward the north at "Husband Hill," the dark-toned "El Dorado" dune field and the light-toned "Home Plate" feature. Husband Hill is approximately 850 meters (2,800 feet) from the rover's winter campaign site. Wind-blown ripples are evident in the field in the foreground, along with vesicular basalt rock. Tracks made by Spirit as it left Home Plate are also visible.

The McMurdo Panorama PIA01907 was acquired over several months while Spirit was on "Low Ridge." It required all of the camera's geology filters and covered 360 degrees in azimuth. This view is in false color, with blue, green and red representing data collected through 430-nanometer, 530-nanometer and 750-nanometer filters, respectively.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cor nell
Produced By:
Cornell University
Mission:
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Spacecraft:
Spirit
Target Name:
Mars
Is a satellite of:
Sol (our sun)
Instrument:
Panoramic Camera
Product Size:
2362 samples x 2048 lines
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
Spirit
facet_what:
Mars
facet_what:
Panoramic Camera
facet_what:
Dorado
facet_what:
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
facet_where:
Mars
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_when:
2006
facet_when_year:
2006
Image #:
PIA09090
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA09090
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Spirit's Winter Home