| 8 June |
Spirit to Visit Von Braun |
Spirits view of Mars Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Spirit, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover has used it’s navigation camer to capture this fantastic image on the right. The image was taken on8 April 2009, or on 1,871 Martian day’s since the rover landed.
The mound on the horizon in the upper left is informally called ‘Von Braun’ and is one of the features that rover team has listed as a possible investigation site for future months. From the location where Spirit was when the image was taken, Von Braun is about 525 feet, or 160 meters, away.
