QUESTION:
I understand you are working 24/7 trying to get out all information as fast
as possible, but I was wondering if you had a guess as to when the super
panorama will be released.

ANSWER from Bridget Landry on August 4, 1997:
No estimate, yet.  Now that our prime mission is over (over?!! we just got
started!), we no longer get priority on the DSN antennas, and so are
downlinking much smaller amounts of data.  In addition, in an effort to
preserve the battery (so that we can take night observations later in the
mission) we are beginning to shut the spacecraft computer down at night,
which means that anything that isn't downlinked by that point is lost. 
Since the "superpan" segments involved HUGE amounts of data, we have
revamped them into much smaller bites, and will only take those that we know
will be downlinked before they are lost.  This means that it will take much
longer than we originally thought to get the "superpan" taken and down to
the ground.  I'll mention your interest to our Webmaster, and see if he can
add something about the status of the superpan to the webpage.

Bridget Landry
Deputy Uplink System Engineer
Mars Pathfinder

ANSWER from David Mittman on August 5, 1997:
As of this date (5 August 1997), only three of the planned eight "octants"
of the so-called "Super Pan" have been acquired. It is unknown when the full
Super Pan will be released. Please note, however, that the "visible light"
portion of the Super Pan will be no more impressive than the
already-released "Gallery Panorama". What makes the Super Pan special is its
inclusion of extra images taken through additional filters. These additional
filters are not generally used to create the color images that we're used to
seeing.

David Mittman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory