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Spirit arrives at the hills
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took the images that make up this 360-degree, 3-D mosaic with its navigation camera. The image highlights Spirit's arrival at the base of the Columbia Hills.
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Ready to enter 'Endurance'
This 3-D anaglyph faces toward the northeast across "Endurance Crater" in Mars' Meridiani Planum region. It was taken two martian days before Opportunity entered the crater, taking the route nearly straight ahead in this image into the "Karatepe" area of the crater.
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Spirit's tracks on Mars
This stereo view of a full 360-degree panorama in Mars' Gusev Crater region was assembled from frames taken by the navigation camera on Spirit. As suggested by the rover tracks fading off in the distance, Spirit made great progress on its trek across the landscape.
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Nearing 'Endurance'
This three-dimensional stereo anaglyph was created from several frames from the navigation camera on Opportunity. It is presented in a cylindrical-perspective projection. The rover is near the edge of "Endurance Crater," which dominates the right half of this view. The crater is about 130 meters (about 430 feet) in diameter.
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A crack under microscope
This 3-D image taken by the microscopic imager on Opportunity shows a close-up of the center of the rock abrasion tool hole, ground into "Bounce." Features smaller than one-tenth of a millimeter (.004 inches) are visible. The observed area is a little over 3 centimeters (1.2 inches). The canyon-like crack that runs across the bottom half of the image is really only about 2 millimeters (about 0.08 inches) deep.
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Goodbye, Eagle
This is the 3-D version of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's view on its 56th sol on Mars, before it left "Eagle Crater." To the right, the rover tracks are visible at the original spot where the rover attempted unsuccessfully to exit the crater. After a one-sol delay, Opportunity took another route to the plains of Meridiani Planum.
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Bonneville Crater
The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took this 3-D navigation camera mosaic Of the crater called "Bonneville." Spirit's position is close enough to the edge to see the interior of the crater, but high enough and far enough back to get a view of all of the walls. Just above the far crater rim, on the left side, is the rover's heatshield, which is visible as a tiny reflective speck.
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Martian 'berries' in 3-D
This is the 3-D anaglyph from Opportunity show a microscopic image taken of soil featuring round, blueberry-shaped rock formations on the crater floor at Meridiani Planum. The area in this image is approximately 3 centimeters (1.2 inches) across.
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Ripples in the soil
The front navigation camera onboard the Spirit rover provides this three-dimensional stereo anaglyph of an interesting patch of rippled soil.
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High-res 3-D panorama
This image shows the Gusev Crater terrain in 3-D. The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured the image with its two high-resolution stereo panoramic cameras.
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Shrouded in dust
Dust-covered rocks can be seen in this portion of the 3-D image taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. Scientists plan to use the rover's rock abrasion tool to grind away dusty and weathered rock, exposing fresh rock underneath.
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Spirit shows Mars in 3-D
A 3-D panorama shot by Spirit's low-resolution navigation cameras was unveiled Monday and a full-resolution, color mosaic showing the terrain immediately in front of the rover is scheduled for downlink early Tuesday.
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Scientists explain the Mars rover Spirit's discovery of hematite at the Columbia Hills and Opportunity's work inside Endurance Crater during this briefing from June 25. (40min 17sec file)
Mars rover Spirit's arrival at the Columbia Hills, trouble with one of its wheels and Opportunity's descent into Endurance Crater and all of the latest pictures are presented at this briefing from June 15. (30min 27sec file)
Cameras on Opportunity provides this "ride-along" view of the rover's risky drive into Endurance Crater. Expert narration by science team member Scott McLennan. (30sec file)
Another stunning color panorama from the Mars rover Opportunity looking into Endurance Crater and the surrounding plains is presented with expert narration by science team member Scott McLennan. (1min 30sec file)
Spirit has generated this panorama from the base of the Columbia Hills. Expert narration is provided by science team member Larry Soderblom. (1min 15sec file)
New pictures from Mars rover Spirit showing the "Pot of Gold" rock area and other features are revealed with expert narration by science team member Larry Soderblom. (4min 47sec file)