Mars Exploration Rover 2003 Status Report Week Ending September 28, 2002

It’s said that one picture is worth a thousand words. Here’s one
that’s worth that and more.

This is a picture [larger version] that we recently took with the Pancam camera on the
MER-2 rover. It’s a pretty simple picture, just looking across the
room at the cruise stage for the MER-1 spacecraft. But it’s the first
image that we’ve taken that really gives a sense of how good our
pictures of Mars will be.

This is just a single Pancam image, but
consider this: A full Pancam panorama of Mars will be four of these
images high, and twenty-four of these images around! We’re not going
to see anything that looks like this cruise stage when we get there,
but we’re going to get quite a spectacular view of the surface of
Mars.