3-D Views Posted From Phoenix Mars Lander

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3-D Views Posted From Phoenix Mars Lander

This colorglyph, acquired by NASA's Phoenix Lander, shows a stereoscopic 3-D view of the Martian surface near the lander. (NASA/JPL-Calech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University)

The images combine views from the left and right 'eyes' of a Phoenix camera.

By University Communications
July 17, 2008

NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander. The images in the new 3-D Gallery combine views from the left and right "eyes" of the lander's Surface Stereo Imager so that they appear three-dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses.

The first 14 images in the gallery were handpicked by Mark Lemmon, Surface Stero Imager lead scientist from Texas A&M University, College Station. The camera took the images between the eighth Martian day, or sol, of the mission (June 2) and the 36th sol (July 1).

Red and blue 3-D glasses (red for left eye, blue for right eye) are needed to properly view these stereo images.

The Phoenix mission is led by Peter Smith of The University of Arizona with project management at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and development partnership at Lockheed Martin, located in Denver. International contributions come from the Canadian Space Agency; the University of Neuchatel; the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark; Max Planck Institute, Germany; and the Finnish Meteorological Institute.