NASA debuted a color picture from the Spirit rover 
on Tuesday showing gray rocks peppering a Martian 
lake bed awash in its natural hues of red pink 
and orange Mission scientists said they were 
bowled over by the spectacular quality of 
the image taken with a dual camera system 
called pancam that is mounted on a mast jutting 
up from the rover I think my reaction has been 
one of shock and awe said Jim Bell the team 
member in charge of pancam Using special software 
mission scientists can fly though the image zooming 
in on rocks and other landscape features of interest
It is approximately the color that you would see 
with your eyes if you were standing there Bell said
The resolution of course is pretty much what you 
would see Pancam has 20 20 vision It is three to 
four times better than any previous mission that has gone 
to Mars in fact these pictures are the highest resolution
highest detailed pictures of Mars ever obtained They 
are absolutely spectacular