If you could stand on Mars -- what might you see? The
robotic Spirit rover that
rolled around Mars from 2004 to 2009 Mars climbed to the top of a hill
in 2005 and took a series of images over three days that were then digitally
combined into a 360 degree panorama.
Spirit was instructed to take images having the same resolution as a human with 20-20 eyesight. The
full panoramic result
has
a level of detail unparalleled in the history of Martian surface photography.
The panorama was taken from the pinnacle of Husband
Hill and has been dubbed the Everest panorama, in honor of
the view from the tallest mountain on Earth. Visible
in Gusev Crater are rocks, rusting sand, a Martian
sundial, vast plains, nearby peaks, faraway peaks, and sand drifts. In the
distance, fast moving dust devils can be seen as
slight apparitions of red, green, or blue, the colors of filters used to build
up this natural
color vista.

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