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| Keywords: Mars Viking 11b045.png This picture was taken by the Viking Lander 1 on August 25 1976 on Sol 35 The large rock just right of the center is about two meters wide This rock was named Big Joe by the Viking scientists The top of the rock is covered with red soil Those portions of the rock not covered are similar in color to basaltic rocks on Earth Therefore this may be a fragment of a lava flow that was ejected by an impact crater The part of the Lander that is visible in the lower left is the cover of the nuclear power supply Own work based on images in the http //pdsimg jpl nasa gov/data/vl1_vl2-m-lcs-2-edr-v1 0/vl_0001/ NASA Viking image archive 2007-07-12; original photo was taken 1976-08-25 Roel van der Hoorn Van der Hoorn I used the original http //pdsimg jpl nasa gov/data/vl1_vl2-m-lcs-2-edr-v1 0/vl_0001/b0xx/11b045 blu 11b045 blu http //pdsimg jpl nasa gov/data/vl1_vl2-m-lcs-2-edr-v1 0/vl_0001/b0xx/11b045 grn 11b045 grn and http //pdsimg jpl nasa gov/data/vl1_vl2-m-lcs-2-edr-v1 0/vl_0001/b0xx/11b045 red 11b045 red images from the http //pdsimg jpl nasa gov/data/vl1_vl2-m-lcs-2-edr-v1 0/vl_0001/b0xx/ NASA Viking image archive converted them to png manually removed the noise and finally merged them into one image Except for the conversion this was all done in Adobe Photoshop CS2 The original files by NASA are in the public domain and so is this new one I created this image as a replacement for the now deleted image Vikinglander-view 2 jpg This file was created by NASA but the quality was not very high Using the original pictures from the Lander archive resulted in a higher quality image Van der Hoorn The image is based on original images from NASA to which the following copyright statement is applicable PD-USGov-NASA Viking mission Mars landscapes | ||||
