Click to enlarge: Endeavour Crater. Image Source: NASA via Wired.
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity spent the winter at Endeavour Crater in the Meridiani Planum, where it soaked up weak sunlight and took 817 images to make up this panoramic view of the crater. The new Mars rover, Curiosity, is due to arrive on the Red Planet on August 5. For more views of the Martian landscape as seen from space, see Wired's best of 5 years' worth of Mars Orbiter images, here.
Gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI would tend to call it 'gorgeous and bleak' but that's me. :D
ReplyDeleteSeriously, it is incredible that we get to see the horizons of Mars as an every day normal thing. We are very lucky to be alive to see these things. Others will be lucky enough to see people walk the surface. The horizon, so devoid of live, so untouched by humanity - it's not something we normally see or contemplate.