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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this view from the
base of "Burns Cliff" during the rover's 280th martian day (Nov. 6, 2004).
This cliff in the inner wall of "Endurance Crater" displays multiple
layers of bedrock for the rover to examine with its panoramic camera and
miniature thermal emission spectrometer. The rover team has decided that
the farthest Opportunity can safely advance along the base of the cliff
is close to the squarish white rock near the center of this image. After
examining the site for a few days from that position, the the rover will
turn around and head out of the crater. The view is a mosaic of frames
taken by Opportunity's navigation camera. The rover was on ground with a
slope of about 30 degrees when the pictures were taken, and the view is
presented here in a way that corrects for that tilt of the camera.
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NASA/JPL
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