- Original Caption Released with Image:
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This map shows the traverse of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity
through the rover's 205th martian day, or sol (Aug. 21, 2004). The
background image is from the rover's descent imaging camera. Images inset
along the route are from Opportunity's navigation camera. Opportunity
began its exploration inside "Eagle" crater near the left edge of the map.
Following completion of its study of the outcrop there, it traversed
eastward to a small crater ("Fram" crater) before driving southeastward
to the rim of "Endurance" crater. After a survey partly around the south
rim of Endurance crater, Opportunity drove inside the southwest rim of
Endurance crater and began a systematic study of outcrops exposed on the
crater's inner slope.
- Image Credit:
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NASA/JPL/New Mexico Museum of Natural History
Image Addition Date:
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2004-09-21
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