[dr_lew]

AND... a lot of work was done to eliminate the ‘arm’ which held the camera so it wouldn’t show up in the photos and this interactive view, which might have led to obscuring certain details of the ground.

Not so. Here is the PTgui stitched panorama of the raw sol 177 images. The overlapping views eliminate the arm naturally.

You can see that what's missing is the full horizon, so the image maker wrapped it a little tighter and stitched a piece in from other sources.

[UCANSEE2]

so the image maker wrapped it a little tighter and stitched a piece in from other sources.

And that is what you are complaining about ?

[UCANSEE2]

Since you seem to be quite an expert on the technical aspects of the Martian Soil, I wonder if you could view the first panorama on the list at the URL below, and tell me if you find any ‘glitches’.

http://www.360pano.eu/mars/?lang=1