The Lying Colors of Mars
Opportunity'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)
Wheel Pit
Wheel Pit
Sol 026 - L2 / L5 / L7		 RATted Bounce Rock
Bounce Rock
Sol 068 - L2 / L5 / L7		 A Trail of RAT Holes
Trail of RAT Holes
Sol 169 - L2 / L5 / L7		 Endurance Mini-Ridge
Endurance Mini-Ridge
Sol 207 - L2 / L5 / L7
Endurance Crater Dunes
Endurance Dunes
Sol 207 - L2 / L5 / L7		 Near the Burns Cliff
Near the Burns Cliff
Sol 281 - L2 / L5 / L7		 Blueberries on the Rim
Rim Blueberries
Sol 314 - L2 / L5 / L7		 On the Crater Rim
On the Crater Rim
Sol 314 - L4 / L5 / L6
Blueberries in the Cracks
Blueberries Cracks
Sol 314 - L2 / L5 / L7		 Heat Shield Ahead
Heat Shield Ahead
Sol 315 - L2 / L5 / L7		 The Blueberry Crossroads
At the Crossroads
Sol 319 - L4 / L5 / L6		 Hematite Ripples
Hematite Ripples
Sol 326 - L4 / L5 / L6
Blueberry Ripples
Blueberry Ripples
Sol 326 - L4 / L5 / L6		 Meridiani Litter
Meridiani Litter
Sol 328 - L4 / L5 / L6		 The Heat Shield Blues
Heat Shield Blues
Sol 328 - L2 / L5 / L7		 Dead Heat Shield
Dead Heat Shield
Sol 331 - L2 / L5 / L7
Meteorite!
Meteorite!
Sol 352 - L4 / L5 / L6		 Blueberry Rays
Blueberry Rays
Sol 365 - L4 / L5 / L6		 Outcrop
Outcrop
Sol 419 - L2 / L5 / L7		 Blue Track
Blue Track
Sol 448 - L2 / L5 / L7