Spirit Lander and Bonneville Crater in Color
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Spirit Lander and Bonneville Crater in Color
ESP_025815_1655  Science Theme: Future Exploration/Landing Sites
HiRISE has never before imaged the actual lander for the Spirit rover in color, on the west side of Bonneville Crater. The lander is still bright, but with a reddish color, probably due to a dust cover (lower left in the subimage).

A bright spot from a remnant of the heat shield is still visible on the north rim of Bonneville Crater. The backshell and parachute are still bright, but were not captured in the narrow color swath.

The rover itself can still be seen near "home plate" in the Columbia Hills, but there is no obvious sign of rover tracks--erased by the wind.



Written by: Alfred McEwen  (8 February 2012)
 
Acquisition date
29 January 2012

Local Mars time
15:04

Latitude (centered)
-14.582°

Longitude (East)
175.486°

Spacecraft altitude
262.6 km (163.2 miles)

Original image scale range
26.3 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~79 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
1.8°

Phase angle
57.1°

Solar incidence angle
58°, with the Sun about 32° above the horizon

Solar longitude
63.2°, Northern Spring

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  44.0°
JPEG
Black and white
map projected  non-map

IRB color
map projected  non-map

Merged IRB
map projected

Merged RGB
map projected

RGB color
non-map projected

JP2
Black and white
map-projected   (577MB)

IRB color
map-projected   (356MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected  (268MB)
non-map           (328MB)

IRB color
map projected  (100MB)
non-map           (368MB)

Merged IRB
map projected  (153MB)

Merged RGB
map-projected  (155MB)

RGB color
non map           (341MB)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
B&W label
Color label
Merged IRB label
Merged RGB label
EDR products
HiView

NB
IRB: infrared-red-blue
RGB: red-green-blue
About color products (PDF)

Black & white is 5 km across; enhanced color about 1 km
For scale, use JPEG/JP2 black & white map-projected images

USAGE POLICY
All of the images produced by HiRISE and accessible on this site are within the public domain: there are no restrictions on their usage by anyone in the public, including news or science organizations. We do ask for a credit line where possible:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

POSTSCRIPT
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The HiRISE camera was built by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation and is operated by the University of Arizona.