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'Burns Cliff' Color Panorama
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this view
of "Burns Cliff" after driving right to the base of
this southeastern portion of the inner wall of "Endurance
Crater." The view combines frames taken by Opportunity's
panoramic camera between the rover's 287th and 294th martian days
(Nov. 13 to 20, 2004).
This is a composite of 46 different images, each acquired in
seven different Pancam filters. It is an approximately true-color
rendering generated from the panoramic camera's 750-nanometer,
530-nanometer and 430-nanometer filters. The mosaic spans more
than 180 degrees side to side. Because of this wide-angle view,
the cliff walls appear to bulge out toward the camera. In reality
the walls form a gently curving, continuous surface.