Cleaned Again: Spirit Self Portrait

         NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its panoramic camera to take the images combined into this third mosaic view of the rover. The downward-looking view omits the mast on which the camera is mounted. It shows that much of the dust that normally accumulates on Spirit's solar panels (see the sol 329A-330A Spirit self portrait panorama) was once again "cleaned" off the deck, this time by a wind event on sol 1224. The images were taken through the camera's 601nm, 535nm and 482nm filters on Sol 1229 (June 18, 2007).

Jim Bell
Pancam Instrument Lead
June 29, 2007