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PIA07404: Studying the Heat Shield's Seal

This image taken on Jan. 6, 2005 by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights the seal on the rover's protective heat shield. Engineers evaluated the performance of the protective shell's seal during a 36-sol investigation.

Target Name:	Mars
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Spacecraft:	Opportunity
Instrument:	Panoramic Camera
Product Size:	2942 x 1951 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	Cornell University
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA07404.tif (14.08 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA07404.jpg (704.4 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights the seal on the rover's protective heat shield. Engineers evaluated the performance of the protective shell's seal during a 36-sol investigation.

After viewing these images, engineers were pleased with how the seal performed.

This is an approximately true-color rendering of the scene acquired around 1:07 p.m. local solar time on Opportunity's sol 339 (Jan. 6, 2005) in an image mosaic using panoramic camera filters at wavelengths of 750, 530, and 430 nanometers.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL/Cornell

Image Addition Date:

2005-03-01