The "Sand-Strewn" Summit of Husband Hill (1) - Sol 603

Original caption:"Undulating bands of dark and light sand, sloping dunes, and scattered cobbles form an apron around a ridge of light-colored rock that stands in bold relief against distant plains, as viewed by NASA's Spirit Rover from the top of Husband Hill on Mars. "The view of the summit is spectacular where we are right now", said geologist Larry Crumpler, with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque.

From here, Spirit is looking North-North/East en route to examining more of the local geology of the Columbia Hills in Gusev Crater. A few days after taking this picture, Spirit investigated the small, sinuous drifts on the left, located north-northeast of the rover's position in this image. The last previous time Spirit examined a drift was on the rim of Bonneville Crater almost 500 Soles ago, in March 2004".