NASA’s rover Spirit recorded this 240° Martian panorama late last month after the vehicle completed a 14-month climb up Husband Hill, named after Commander Rick Husband, who was killed in the Columbia shuttle accident. Located about 3 kilometers east of the craft’s landing site in Gusev crater, the hill rises 82 meters above the surrounding plains and provides a view of several routes to Spirit’s next major destination—a long, distant basin (between arrows) that appears in magnified images to have layered ledges of rock.
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