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Marathon Valley Floor

         This mosaic was acquired by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on Sol 4327 (March 26, 2016).  This approximately 125 degree wide view features a large of Marathon Valley's floor in front of the rover that was used to search for variations in the floor. NOTE: Missing data and other artifacts in this mosaic are the result of the images being acquired while the Opportunity rover was operating in "RAM mode". That is, because of issues with the rover's onboard Flash memory storage, sometimes data are stored directly in the rover's volatile RAM memory instead, and then downlinked to Earth. At the end of each sol of RAM mode operations, however, when the rover shuts down, all of that sol's data is erased. Thus, any missing images, missing color channels, or data transmission errors cannot be fixed by retransmitting the missing data the following sol, like we can do during Flash mode operations. Pancam's 753nm, 535nm, and 432nm filters were used in making this mosaic.  Two versions are provided at full resolution: an approximate true color rendering, and a false color rendering which enhances the subtle color differences in the scene.

        

 


Jim Bell
Pancam Instrument Lead
June 16, 2016

Full Resolution Images
True Color Thumb
  Approximate
  True Color   .jpg    .tif
  Image size: 8162 x 2337
 
False Color Thumb
  False Color    .jpg    .tif
  Image size: 8162 x 2337

 
   Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell/ASU
   Image mosaicking:
     Jon Beans Proton,
     Jonathan Joseph,
     Emily Dean
   Calibration and color
   rendering: CCC
   and the Pancam team (Jim Bell)
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