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NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
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NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
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Title:
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Spirit Begins Third Martian Year
Title
Spirit Begins Third Martian Year
Title
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Original Caption Released with Image:
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As it finished its second Martian year on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit was beginning to examine a group of angular rocks given informal names corresponding to peaks in the Colorado Rockies. A Martian year -- the amount of time it takes Mars to complete one orbit around the sun -- lasts for 687 Earth days. Spirit completed its second Martian year on the rover's 1,338th Martian day, or sol, corresponding to Oct. 8, 2007.
Two days later, on sol 1,340 (Oct. 10, 2007), Spirit used its front hazard-identificatio n camera to capture this wide-angle view of its robotic arm extended to a rock informally named "Humboldt Peak." For the rocks at this site on the southern edge of the "Home Plate" platform in the inner basin of the Columbia Hills inside Gusev Crater, the rover team decided to use names of Colorado peaks higher than 14,000 feet. The Colorado Rockies team of the National League is the connection to the baseball-theme nomenclature being used for features around Home Plate.
The tool facing Spirit on the turret at the end of the robotic arm is the Moessbauer spectrometer.
Original_Caption_Rel eased_with_Image
As it finished its second Martian year on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit was beginning to examine a group of angular rocks given informal names corresponding to peaks in the Colorado Rockies. A Martian year -- the amount of time it takes Mars to complete one orbit around the sun -- lasts for 687 Earth days. Spirit completed its second Martian year on the rover's 1,338th Martian day, or sol, corresponding to Oct. 8, 2007.
Two days later, on sol 1,340 (Oct. 10, 2007), Spirit used its front hazard-identificatio n camera to capture this wide-angle view of its robotic arm extended to a rock informally named "Humboldt Peak." For the rocks at this site on the southern edge of the "Home Plate" platform in the inner basin of the Columbia Hills inside Gusev Crater, the rover team decided to use names of Colorado peaks higher than 14,000 feet. The Colorado Rockies team of the National League is the connection to the baseball-theme nomenclature being used for features around Home Plate.
The tool facing Spirit on the turret at the end of the robotic arm is the Moessbauer spectrometer.
Original Caption Released with Image
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Image Credit:
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
Image_Credit
NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Produced By:
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JPL
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JPL
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Mission:
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Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mission
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Spacecraft:
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Spirit
Spacecraft
Spirit
Spacecraft
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Target Name:
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Mars
Target_Name
Mars
Target Name
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Sol (our sun)
Is_a_satellite_of
Sol (our sun)
Is a satellite of
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Instrument:
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Hazard Identification Camera
Instrument
Hazard Identification Camera
Instrument
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Product Size:
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1024 samples x 1024 lines
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1024 samples x 1024 lines
Product Size
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facet_what:
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Sun
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Sun
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Crater
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Crater
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Earth
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Earth
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Spectrometer
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Spectrometer
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Spirit
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Spirit
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Mars
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Mars
facet_what
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facet_what:
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Moessbauer Spectrometer
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Moessbauer Spectrometer
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Hazard-identificatio n Camera
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Hazard-identificatio n Camera
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facet_what:
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Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
facet_what
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facet_what:
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Columbia
facet_what
Columbia
facet_what
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facet_where:
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Mars
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Mars
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facet_where:
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Colorado
facet_where
Colorado
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_where
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_where
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Image #:
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PIA10078
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UID:
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SPD-PHOTJ-PIA10078
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SPD-PHOTJ-PIA10078
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