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If you could stand on Mars during the day, what would you see?

"One memorable vista might be the above 360-degree panoramic image taken by the robotic Spirit rover over the last year. The above image involved over 200 exposures and was released as part of Spirit's five year anniversary of landing on the red planet. The image was taken from the spot that Spirit stopped to spend the winter, near an unusual plateau called Home Plate. Visible on the annotated image are rocks, hills, peaks, ridges, plains inside Gusev crater, and previous tracks of the rolling Spirit rover. The image color has been closely matched to what a human would see."

I'm starting to think those conspiracy dudes are right. NASA never went to Mars. They just took some pictures of West Texas. (Except, of course, they had to pretty West Texas up a bit for these pictures.)