Thursday, October 26, 2006
Panoramas from Mars
Image Credit NASA/JPL/CornellBoth Tom and the Bad Astronomer have blogged this, but I'm going to as well. Spirit has been parked on a ridge during winter, when the solar intensity has been too low to give it a lot of power. During this time it snapped the above 360 degree panorama (slowly, it took 119 Sols to complete). It's truely stunning. As well, Spirit has passed its 1000th Sol (Martian Day), not bad for something designed to last only 90 Sols.
As Martian Spring approaches, Spirit will be gearing up to do more science. Next week it will drive to some rocks that may be the result of a volcanic eruption.
For high resolution images and the original press release, see here. For a stunning 3D anaglyph picture, where the rocks jump out at you, see here (you neeed coulour 3D glasses though). A good New Scientist article is here.
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 11:42 pm 
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