English: Spirit's West Valley Panorama
Original caption from NASA : "NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau where Sprit spent the closing months of 2007.
After several months near the base of the plateau called "Home Plate" in the inner basin of the Columbia Hills range inside Gusev Crater, Spirit climbed onto the eastern edge of the plateau during the rover's 1,306th Martian day, or sol, (Sept. 5, 2007). It examined rocks and soils at several locations on the southern half of Home Plate during September and October. It was perched near the western edge of Home Plate when it used its panoramic camera (Pancam) to take the images used in this view on sols 1,366 through 1,369 (Nov. 6 through Nov. 9, 2007). With its daily solar-energy supply shrinking as Martian summer turned to fall, Spirit then drove to the northern edge of Home Plate for a favorable winter haven. The rover reached that northward-tilting site in December, in time for the fourth Earth-year anniversary of its landing on Mars. Spirit reached Mars on Jan. 4, 2004, Universal Time (Jan. 3, 2004, Pacific Standard Time). It landed at a site at about the center of the horizon in this image.
This panorama covers a scene spanning left to right from southwest to northeast. The western edge of Home Plate is in the foreground, generally lighter in tone than the more distant parts of the scene. A rock-dotted hill in the middle distance across the left third of the image is "Tsiolkovski Ridge," about 30 meters or 100 feet from the edge of Home Plate and about that same distance across. A bump on the horizon above the left edge of Tsiolkovski Ridge is "Grissom Hill," about 8 kilometers or 5 miles away. At right, the highest point of the horizon is "Husband Hill," to the north and about 800 meters or half a mile away.
This view combines separate images taken through Pancam filters centered on wavelengths of 753 nanometers, 535 nanometers and 432 nanometers to produce an approximately true-color panorama."
Français : Panorama de
West Valley par Spirit.
Le Mars Exploration Rover Spirit a pris cette vue depuis un petit plateau nommé Home Plate en regardant vers l'ouest. L'image a été prise avec un appareil photo panoramique (Pancam) durant les jours martiens (ou sols) 1366 à 1369 (du 6 au 9 Novembre 2007). Elle combine plusieurs vues prises avec différents filtres centrés sur des longueurs d'ondes de 753, 535, et 432 manomètres pour produire des couleurs proches de la réalité.
Ce panorama couvre environ 180 degrés, du sud ouest au nord est. On y voit,au premier plan, la bordure ouest de
Home Plate, plus claire que le reste du paysage. Tsiolkovski Ridge, d'une taille de 30 mètres et à une distance du même ordre, est visible comme une colline parsemée de rochers à mi-distance dans le tiers gauche de l'image. Au dessus à gauche, on voit à l'horizon
Grissom Hill, distante de 8 kilomètres. Sur la droite, le point le plus haut de l'horizon est
Husband Hill, distante de 800 mètres. Le point d'atterrissage de Spirit se trouve à l'horizon, à peu près au centre de l'image.