Spirit rover - Descent from the Summit of ’Husband Hill’

In late November 2005 while descending “Husband Hill,“ Spirit took the most detailed panorama so far of the “Inner Basin,“ one of the rover’s 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 some 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