The Lying Colors of Mars
Spirit's Eye-Candy
Images Courtesy NASA / JPL / Cornell
Assembled & Combined by R.D."Gus" Frederick

Index | Spirit | Opportunity
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The images on these pages represent what I feel are some of the best artistic Martian surfaces pictures acquired by the two Mars Exploration Rovers. Each image is a color composite using three filtered gray-scale images from the Rover's left Panoramic Camera, plugged into the red, green and blue channels of the images. Although these images are in "color" they do not represent the true color of Mars, but rather what three automatically exposed gray-scale images look like after being combined into an RGB environment "as-is." Below are the filter's colors:

L2 = 753nm (Near-IR) | L4 = 601nm (Red) | L5 = 535nm (Green) | L6 = 482nm (Blue) | L7 = 432nm (Near UV)
Photovoltiac Array
Photovoltiac Array
Sol 011 - L4 / L5 / L7
Spirit Gouges
Gouges
Sol 047 - L2 / L5 / L6
Blue-Brushed Humphry
Blue-Brushed Humphry
Sol 055 - L4 / L5 / L6
Mazatzal at Bonneville
Mazatzal at Bonneville
Sol 078 - L4 / L5 / L6
Ragged Rocks in Gusev
Ragged Rocks in Gusev
Sol 168 - L4 / L5 / L6
Blue Rocks in the Columbia Hills
Blue Rocks in the Columbia Hills
Sol 297 - L2 / L5 / L7
The Road to Larry's Lookout
The Road to Larry's Lookout
Sol 297 - L2 / L5 / L7
Blue RAT Holes
Blue Brushed
Sol 304 - L2 / L5 / L7
Weird White Stuff
Weird White Stuff
Sol 351 - L4 / L5 / L6
Cyclops RAT Rock
Cyclops RAT Rock
Sol 342 - L2/ L5 / L7
Cirrus Clouds
Cirrus Clouds
Sol 347 - L2 / L5 / L7
More Weird White Stuff
More Weird White Stuff
Sol 400 - L2 / L5 / L7
Orange Whities
Orange Whities
Sol 404 - L2 / L5 / L7
Cleaned
Cleaned
Sol 422 - L2/ L5 / L6
Rounded Rocks in the Hills
Rounded Rocks in the Hills
Sol 439 - L2 / L5 / L7
Balanced Rock
Balanced Rock
Sol 464 - L2 / L5 / L7
Shocked Rock
Shocked Rock
Sol 477 - L2 / L5 / L7
Martian Cookies
Martian Cookies
Sol 483 - L2 / L5 / L7
Boundry 1
Boundry 1
Sol 493 - L2/ L5 / L6
Boundry 2
Boundry 2
Sol 493 - L2 / L5 / L7