Panoramic view of Mars. - stock photo

November 4, 1997 - improved, color enhanced version of the 360-degree panorama Gallery Pan, the first contiguous, uniform panorama taken by Mars Pathfinder (IMP) over the course of Sols 8, 9, and 10. Different regions were imaged at different times over the three Martian days. Distortion due to a 2.5 degree tilt in the IMP camera mast has been removed, effectively flattening the horizon. The IMP has color capability provided by 24 selectable filters, twelve filters per eye. Its red, green, and blue filters were used to take this image. The color was digitally balanced according to the color transmittance capability of a high-resolution TV at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and is dependent on that device. Detail in surface features are brought out via changes to saturation and intensity. A threshold was applied to avoid changes to the sky. At left is a Lander petal and a metallic mast. Misregistration in the antenna and other Lander features is due to parallax in the extreme foreground. On the horizon the double Twin Peaks are visible, about 1-2 kilometers away. The rock Couch is the dark, curved rock at right of Twin Peaks. Another Lander petal is at left-center, showing the fully deployed forward ramp at far left, and rear ramp at right, which rover Sojourner used to descend to the surface of Mars on July 5. Immediately to the left of the rear ramp is the rock Barnacle Bill. Beyond that, rover tracks lead to Sojourner, shown using its Alpha Proton X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument to study the large rock Yogi. low in quartz content, more primitive than Barnacle Bill, and more like the common basalts found on Earth. The tracks and circular pattern in the soil leading up to Yogi were part of Sojourner's soil mechanics experiments. During one of the turns to deploy Sojourner's Alpha Proton X-Ray Spectrometer, the wheels dug particularly deeply and exposed white material, virtually identical to the rock Scooby Doo.