"Independence Pan"
This is the Spirit Pancam "Independence" panorama, acquired on sols
536 to 543 (July 6 to 13, 2005) from a position in the Columbia Hills near the
summit of Husband Hill. The summit of Husband Hill is the peak near the right
of this panorama and is about 100 meters away from the rover and about 30
meters higher in elevation. The rocky outcrops downhill and on the left side
of this mosaic are the Larry's Lookout and Cumberland Ridge rocks that Spirit
explored in April, May, and June 2005.
The panorama spans 360 degrees and consists of images obtained in 108
individual pointings and 5 Pancam filters at each pointing. This mosaic is an
approximate true color rendering generated using the images acquired through
Pancam's 750, 530, and 480 nm filters. The lighting varied considerably
during the 8 sols that it took to acquire this image (partly because of
imaging at different times of sol, but also partly because of small sol-to-sol
variations in the dustiness of the atmosphere), resulting in some obvious
image seams or rock shadow variations within the mosaic. These seams have
been smoothed out from the sky parts of the mosaic in order to simulate
better the vista that a person would have if they were viewing it all at the
same time on Mars. However, it is often not possible or practical to smooth
out such seams for regions of rock, soil, rover tracks, or solar panels.
Such is the nature of acquiring and assembling large Pancam panoramas from
the rovers.
Jim Bell
Pancam PEL
26 August 2005
Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell
Image mosaicking: JPL/MIPL (Bob Deen)
Calibration and color rendering: Cornell Calibration Crew and the Pancam team (Jim Bell)
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Image Dimensions: 22348x4563
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