Press Release Images: Spirit

10-Feb-2004   Ripples in The Soil This is a three-dimensional stereo anaglyph of an image taken by the front navigation camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, showing an interesting patch of rippled soil. Spirit took this image on sol 37 (Feb. 9, 2004) after completing the longest drive ever made by a rover on another planet - 21.2 meters (69.6 feet). On sol 38 scientists plan to investigate this interesting location with the microscopic imager and Mössbauer spectrometer on Spirit's instrument deployment device. Image credit: NASA/JPL Browse Image (97 kB) | Large (1.4 MB) Spirit Spies Wavy Bedforms Spirit took this front hazard-avoidance camera image on sol 37 (Feb. 9, 2004) after completing the longest drive ever made by a rover on another planet - 21.2 meters (69.6 feet). The wavy feature called a bedform is created when material is transported and deposited by some process - in this case wind. The team is interested in the fact that the crests of this and most other bedforms they've observed through orbital data and rover images are all parallel to each other, indicating uniform wind direction. Image credit: NASA/JPL Browse Image (35 kB) | Large (393 kB)

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