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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
MARS FOR ADULTS ONLY PART SEVEN " Mini-Dinos"
Un-official official disclosure! Mars is crawling with life! " DESCENT FROM THE SUMMIT OF HUSBAND HILL" "In late November 2005 while descending "Husband Hill," NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took the most detailed panorama so far of the "Inner Basin," the rover's next target destination. Spirit acquired the 405 individual images that make up this 360-degree view of the surrounding terrain using five different filters on the panoramic camera. The rover took the images on Martian days, or sols, 672 to 677 (Nov. 23 to 28, 2005 -- the Thanksgiving holiday weekend). " "This image is a false-color rendering using camera's 750-, 530-, and 430-nanometer filters, emphasizing somme colors more than others to enhance striking but subtle color differences among rocks, soils, hills, and plains." " 'Home Plate,' a bright, semi-circular feature scientists hope to investigate, is harder to discern in this image than in earlier views taken from higher up the hill. Spirit acquired this more oblique view, known as the "Seminole panorama," from about halfway down the south flank of Husband Hill, 50 meters (164 feet) or so below the summit. Near the center of the panorama, on the horizon, are "McCool Hill" and "Ramon Hill," named, like Husband Hill, in honor of the fallen astronauts of the space shuttle Columbia. Husband Hill is visible behind the rover, on the right and left sides of the panorama. An arc of rover tracks made while avoiding obstacles and getting into position to examine ...
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