This image taken by the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Panoramic_cameras" title="Category:Panoramic cameras">panoramic camera</a> aboard the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rover's empty lander, the Challenger Memorial Station, at Meridiani Planum, Mars. The image was acquired on the rover's 24 sol, or Martian day Time. This <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mosaic" class="mw-redirect" title="Mosaic">mosaic</a> image consists of 12 colour images acquired with the camera's <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Red" class="mw-redirect" title="Red">red</a>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Green" title="Green">green</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blue" title="Blue">blue</a> filters. The colour balance has been set to approximate the colours that a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Human_eye" title="Human eye">human eye</a> would see.
NASA/JPL/Cornell
2004-02-18
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