PIA06281: 'Columbia Hills' at Last! (Left Eye)


‘Columbia Hills’ at Last! (Left Eye)

Caption:

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took this left eye of a pair of stereo images, projected at a cylindrical perspective, with its navigation camera on sol 156 (June 11, 2004). The image highlights Spirit's arrival at the base of the Columbia Hills. Since landing at Gusev crater, Spirit has put more than 3.4 kilometers (2.1 miles) on its odometer. Much of this can be attributed to the long drives the rover had to undertake to reach these interesting landforms.

See PIA06280 for 3-D view and PIA06282 for right eye view of this left eye cylindrical-perspective projection.

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target Mars
System
Target Type Planet
Mission Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Instrument Host Spirit (MER-A)
Host Type Rover
Instrument Navigation Camera (Navcam)
Detector
Extra Keywords Crater, Grayscale
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2004-06-16
Date in Caption 2004-06-11
Image Credit NASA/JPL
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06281
Identifier PIA06281