Martian Vistas

The Bonestell panorama is still not completely downlinked however NASA have released a version to celebrate Spirit's five years on Mars I thought I'd do the same and add something extra with a colour anaglyph (3D, you'll need a pair of those red/blue glasses).

I've kept it in the 'rover frame' so the horizon is curved. This is because this is the way the two 'eyes' of Sprit saw the scene and you would have needed to tilt your head as you panned across the picture to see it properly if I had changed it. I found the b/w 'ground frame' version that NASA posted distorted and very hard to view properly.

I'll post the normal 2D versions and larger 3D versions when the last bits of the image have finished being downloaded from the rover.

Happy birthday Spirit!

Large (8072 x 2440) (5.4Mb)
Medium (4036 x 1220) (1.7Mb)
Small (2018 x 610) (464kb)