The Overhead view can have a blank black background, a texture mapped image background, or a color-coded elevation map background. Below are some features of the Overhead view. View object footprints are displayed, e.g, footprints of images planned in the sequence. Click on a point to get the X-Y coordinates relative to the lander. The Show menu allow you to turn on and off the drawing of headings, radian distance grid, and X-Y distance grid.
Overlays menu allows changing the color of the overlays.
Diameter menu allow changing the diameter of the Overhead view. The Plan window enables a user to change the current plan and to open new views, e.g., Panorama, 3D, and Overhead views. A view is opened by double clicking on its name in the Plan window. There may be multiple views of the same type with different image sets in them. There are other features of the Plan window which mission operators use, e.g., changing the plan, viewing past plans.