The false-color view seen here helps to emphasize the differences between varying materials in the rocks and the soils. Combining images taken through three different Pancam filters -- near infrared light, green, and violet -- better simulate the view a human on Mars would see.
See the full-size panorama here.
January 24, 2013 4:48 PM PST
Photo by: NASA/JPL-Caltech
| Caption by: James Martin