PIA05180: Opportunity and Its Mother Ship
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Navigation Camera
 Product Size:  4444 x 1755 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA05180.tif (3.959 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA05180.jpg (610.7 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:
This image captured by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's navigation camera shows the rover and the now-empty lander that carried it 283 million miles to Meridiani Planum, Mars. Engineers received confirmation that Opportunity's six wheels rolled off the lander and onto martian soil at 3:02 a.m. PST, January 31, 2004, on the seventh martian day, or sol, of the mission. The rover, seen at the bottom of the image, is approximately 1 meter (3 feet) in front of the lander, facing north.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
2004-01-31