Spirit has taken a total of SEVEN panoramas of that size.
1) Landing Site Mission Success Pan
2) Middle Ground Pan
3) Bonneville Rim Pan
4) San Anita Pan half way to the Hills
5) Cahokia Pan from the top of West Spur
6) Turkey / Thanksgiving Pan on NE slope of West Spur
7) Larrys Lookout Pan
Opportunity is Lagging a little...
1) Landing Site Mission Success Pan
2) Lion King Pan from rim of Eagle Crater
3) Endurance Crater Pan West Rim
4) Endurance Crater Pan South East Rim
5) Purgatory Dune Pan ( taken, but not published )
and sort of 6) Half a Pan at Burn's Cliff
Add them all up - 12.5 panoramas of 22k x 3k pixels, a total of 825 Megapixels of imagery, and approx 5.625 Gbits of compressed, or 29.7 Gbits of uncompressed data.
MPF returned 2.5 Gigabits in it's entire mission :)
Doug
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