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Rub-al-Khaĺ: Opportunity's 360° Panorama (Soles 456 to 464)
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Caption NASA:"This PanCam image, dubbed Rub al Khali, was acquired by NASA's MER Opportunity on the Plains of Meridiani during the period from the Rover's 456th to 464th Soles on Mars (May 6 to May 14, 2005). Opportunity was about 2 Km south of Endurance Crater at a place known informally as Purgatory Dune.
The Rover was stuck in the dune's deep fine sand for more than a month. Rub al Khali (Arabic translation: "the empty quarter") was chosen as the name for this panorama because it is the name of a similarly barren, desolate part of the Saudi Arabian desert on Earth.
The view spans 360° and it consists of images obtained in 97 individual pointings of the PanCam. The camera took images with 5 camera filters at each pointing. This 22.780-by-6.000-pixel mosaic is an approximately true-color rendering generated using the images acquired through filters admitting light wavelengths of 750, 530 and 480 nnmts".
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