Winter on Mars
This picture was taken by the NASA robot “Spirit” over the course of 5 months. The “McMurdo panorama” is a combination of more than 1400 individual pictures which were taken when the lack of sunlight didn’t allow the rover to move during the Marsian winter.
For improved immersion, the interactive panoramic image has been contrast enhanced and the sky is an extrapolation from the narrow band of sky in the original pictures (so there is no sun, for example.) Based on images courtesy of NASA/JPL/Cornell.
Click here to access a site providing a Quicktime interactive 360 degree view around “Spirit.
Doug
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I think the blacked out areas near the robot are Martians our government doesn't want us to see, at least until it can develop an amnesty program for them and bring them to the U.S. as voters for the Democrat ticket.
Why do we want to go there?
No fast food restaurants.