Speckled with Spherules
January 4, 2005
This false-color image taken by the panoramic camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights the spherules that speckle the rock dubbed Stone Mountain. The colors in this picture were exaggerated or stretched to enhance the real difference in color between Stone Mountain and its collection of granular dots.
Topics:
Hospitality Recreation, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars, Space exploration, Stone Mountain, Martian spherules, Speckle pattern, Rover, Scientific information from the Mars Exploration Rover mission, Opportunity rover, Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle
