Viking Lander
Rocky Horizon
Mars rocky horizon by Viking 2.
Two high-resolution images (22a005.bb2 and 22a011.bb3) by the Viking 2 Lander camera 2 were mosaiced to create this scene of Utopia Planitia looking northeast to the horizon some three kilometers away. The rock in the lower right corner is 25 centimeters across. The largest rock near the center of the picture is about 60 centimeters long and 30 centimeters high. A small channel winds from upper left to lower right. The tilted horizon is due to the eight-degree tilt of the landed spacecraft.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Mosaic by astroarts.org
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First Color Panorama of Utopia Planitia on Mars
First color panorama of Utopia Planitia.
This is the first color panorama of Utopia Planitia returned by the Viking 2 Lander.
The panorama was created by combining and stitching the .red/.grn/.blu image series 22a003, 22a016 and 22a018.
The images were taken by camera 2 on September 4 and September 6, 1976, in the Martian afternoon looking towards the northeast. The Sun is behind the camera.
The large rock left of the center of the panorama is about 1 meter wide. Because the spacecraft is tilted about 8 degrees to the west, the horizon appears tilted.
Please note that the .red, .grn and .blu images from the Viking Landers don’t have the same maximum wavelength as human vision has and thus a simple RGB combination of these channels could NOT be considered as “true color”.
The panorama presented here was processed further to resemble an approximately true color appearance.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Panorama by astroarts.org
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Afternoon at Chryse Planitia
View of the Viking 1 Lander site in Chryse Planitia.
High-resolution view of the Martian surface at Chryse Planitia, produced from nine Viking 1 Lander mid-afternoon images (12a119.bb3, 12a136.bb1, 12a140.bb2, 12a152.bb2, 12a153.bb4, 12a211.bb4, 12a212.bb4, 12a237.bb4 and 12a238.bb2). The images were taken between August 10 and August 20, 1976.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Mosaic by astroarts.org
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