PIA11976: Time for a Change; Spirit's View on Sol 1843 (Vertical)


Time for a Change; Spirit’s View on Sol 1843 (Vertical)

Caption:

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its navigation camera to take the images that have been combined into this full-circle view of the rover's surroundings during the 1,843rd Martian day, or sol, of Spirit's surface mission (March 10, 2009). South is in the middle. North is at both ends.

This view is presented as a vertical projection with geometric seam correction. North is at the top.

The rover had driven 36 centimeters downhill earlier on Sol 1854, but had not been able to get free of ruts in soft material that had become an obstacle to getting around the northeastern corner of the low plateau called "Home Plate."

The Sol 1854 drive, following two others in the preceding four sols that also achieved little progress in the soft ground, prompted the rover team to switch to a plan of getting around Home Plate counterclockwise, instead of clockwise. The drive direction in subsequent sols was westward past the northern edge of Home Plate.

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 Grayscale
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2009-04-05
Date in Caption 2009-03-10
Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA11976
Identifier PIA11976