Calypso panorama
Image date: 26 August 2009
Image courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University
This full-circle view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the terrain surrounding the location called "Troy," where Spirit became embedded in soft soil during the spring of 2009. The hundreds of images combined into this view were taken beginning on the 1,906th Martian day (or sol) of Spirit’s mission on Mars (May 14, 2009) and ending on Sol 1943 (June 20, 2009).
The bright soil in the foreground is soft material in which Spirit became embedded after the wheels on that side cut through a darker top layer. The composition of different layers in the soil at the site became the subject of intense investigation by tools on Spirit’s robotic arm.
The Pancam team named this scene the camera’s Calypso Panorama. This version is an approximate true-color, red-green-blue composite panorama generated from images taken through the Pancam’s 750-nanometer, 530-nanometer and 480-nanometer filters. This "natural color" view is the rover team’s best estimate of what the scene would look like if we were there and able to see it with our own eyes.
The bright soil in the foreground is soft material in which Spirit became embedded after the wheels on that side cut through a darker top layer. The composition of different layers in the soil at the site became the subject of intense investigation by tools on Spirit’s robotic arm.
The Pancam team named this scene the camera’s Calypso Panorama. This version is an approximate true-color, red-green-blue composite panorama generated from images taken through the Pancam’s 750-nanometer, 530-nanometer and 480-nanometer filters. This "natural color" view is the rover team’s best estimate of what the scene would look like if we were there and able to see it with our own eyes.