Spirit's First Colour Photo of Mars

By Fraser Cain - January 6, 2004 at 7:18 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Well, here it is, the picture we've all been waiting for - the first colour image from the surface of Mars taken by Spirit. I can't believe the resolution this rover has. I've taken a big chunk of the image and processed it to be a

1280 x 1024 wallpaper

. To set this image as your desktop wallpaper, click the following link, and then right-click anywhere in the image and select "Set as Wallpaper".

Click here to download the first colour image of Mars taken by Spirit. (156 KB)

If you want to access the original, high-resolution image from NASA,

click here

instead. I'll warn you, though, it's more than 4 MB... and that's just the medium resolution version.

Enjoy!

Fraser Cain

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Universe Today

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today, founding the website in March 1999. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast.