McMurdo Panorama (1)

Caption NASA originale:"One part of the research program that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is conducting while sitting at a favorable location for Wintertime Solar Energy is the most detailed panorama yet taken on the surface of Mars.
This view is a partial preliminary product from the continuing work on the full image, which will be called the "McMurdo Panorama" .

Spirit's PanCam began taking exposures for the McMurdo Panorama on the Rover's 814th Martian day (April 18, 2006).
The Rover has accumulated more than 900 exposures for this panorama so far, through all of the PanCam mineralogy filters and using little or no image compression. Even with a tilt toward the Winter Sun, the amount of energy available daily is small, so the job will still take 1 to 2 more months to complete".