Mars Opportunity Rover Landscape for Stellarium
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Description
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This is the Opportunity panoramic camera's "Erebus Rim" panorama,
acquired on sols 652 to 663 (Nov. 23 to Dec. 5, 2005 ), as NASA's Mars
Exploration Rover Opportunity was exploring sand dunes and outcrop
rocks in Meridiani Planum. The panorama originally consisted of 635
separate images in 4 different Pancam filters, and covers 360 degrees of
terrain around the rover and the full rover deck. Since the time that
this panorama was acquired, and while engineers have been diagnosing
and testing Opportunity's robotic arm, the panorama has been expanded
to include more than 1,300 images of this terrain through all of the
Pancam multispectral filters. It is the largest panorama acquired by
either rover during the mission.

The panorama shown here is an approximate true-color rendering using
Pancam's 750 nanometer, 530 nanometer and 430 nanometer filters. It is
presented here as a cylindrical projection. Image-to-image seams have
been eliminated from the sky portion of the mosaic to better simulate
the vista a person standing on Mars would see.

This panorama provides the team's highest resolution view yet of the
finely-layered outcrop rocks, wind ripples, and small cobbles and grains
along the rim of the wide but shallow "Erebus" crater. Once the arm
diagnostics and testing are completed, the team hopes to explore other
layered outcrop rocks at Erebus and then eventually continue southward
toward the large crater known as "Victoria."


Files
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This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

  mars/readme.txt
  mars/landscape.ini
  mars/Mars_Opportunity_Rover.png


Installation & Use
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Unzip the zip file in the <user_directory>/landscapes directory.
The location varies depending on your operating system.  See the 
Stellarium User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog.  Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.


Credits
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Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

Image editing for Stellarium: Michael Smith
E-mail: lone_hiker@hotmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~lonesky/Mars_Opportunity_Rover.zip

License
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NASA Images are released into the public domain

