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Click on the image for Opportunity's 'Olympia' Panorama (QTVR)
This view from the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover
Opportunity shows an outcrop called "Olympia" along the northwestern
margin of "Erebus" crater. The view spans about 120 degrees from side to
side, generally looking southward. The outcrop exposes a broad expanse of
sulfate-rich sedimentary rocks. The rocks were formed predominantly from
windblown sediments, but some also formed in environmental conditions from
damp to under shallow surface water. After taking the images that were
combined into this view, Opportunity drove along along a path between sand
dunes to the upper left side of the image, where a cliff in the background
can be seen. This is a cliff is known as the "Mogollon Rim." Researchers
expect it to expose more than 1 meter (3 feet) of new strata. These strata
may represent the highest level observed yet by Opportunity. The image is
an approximately true-color rendering generated using the panoramic
camera's 750-nanometer, 530-nanometer and 430-nanometer filters.
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
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