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Detailed Panorama of Mars Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the red-planet-map dept.

dptalia writes "NASA has just released a detailed panorama of Mars taken by the Spirit rover. During the short Martian winter the rover didn't get enough sunlight to move, so it took these pictures instead. Spirit took over 1400 pictures, for a total of 500 megs of data. If you look to the left of the picture, you'll see the tracks from the rover's trip."

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  1. Re:'Detailed Panorama'? by Jaruzel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So...

    If I were standing on Mars in my natty Gucci space suit, which has a CLEAR visor. Is the Normal or the False Colour image the vista I'd see?

    ie. is Mars really red?

    -Jar.

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