These images are all taken from by , which documents the travels of NASA’s two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. (Read our review of the book)
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Challenging drives along and across steep rocky ridges were a continual theme in ‘s ascent of , which took nearly one Earth year to complete.
This is part of a large color panorama of acquired on .
The interior and floor of the crater exhibit dunes and wind streaks, but no evidence of the layering or colour variations that might indicate different rock types with depth.
Sometimes, driving across the sandy plains of felt more like sailing a ship across a vast wavy sea.
This is a Spirit rover 3-D view, taken on , of the football sized-rock named .
This Pancam image from shows numerous details of the shape and texture of three large, isolated rocks encountered on the flanks of Husband Hill, near the summit.
This Pancam false color image from sol 150 shows three holes that were ground into areas only 5 to 20 cm away from each other, using the Rock Abrasion Tool ().
This Pancam sol 287 stereo view approaching makes the terrain seem relatively flat, until you realize that the rover and the cameras are themselves tilted at more than a 20° angle.
The Spirit rover rolling off its lander.
This small piece of rock, called “Gong Gong” is a heavily eroded piece of what geologists call : a pitted, vesicle-covered, wind-carved volcanic rock.
Sometimes an ancient surface can exhibit strange and exotic landforms. These shapes resulted from wind-sculpting, volcanic lava eruptions, impact cratering-processes, or some combination of these factors.
view of clouds around Olympus Mons, the highest volcano in the solar system.
Spirit Pancam sol 200 views of the twin RAT holes ground into the rock called ““.
Mars is covered in sand. Here’s what it looks like up close in this 3-D photo from the “” sand dune.
Opportunity used its RAT to grind into what turned out to be a very soft layer of outcrop rock called ““.
