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Martian landscape, false-colour panorama, obtained by the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover. This image is of the region known as Home Plate, a rocky outcrop with layered features, which is located in the Columbia Hills of the Gusev Crater. The large mound at upper right is called Husband Hill. Spirit landed on Mars in January 2004. The colours of the image were created by combining three camera filters designed to enhance colour differences in the Martian rocks and soils. The true-colour equivalent image is R360/320. This panorama was obtained on 6th-9th November 2007, on days 1366-1369 of the rover's mission. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/NASA/JPL-CALTECH/CORNELL UNIVERSITY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)