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This enhanced-color view of the eastern rim and floor of "Victoria Crater"
in Mars' Meridiani Planum region comes from the High Resolution Imaging
Science Experiment camera in NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
It shows ridges that may be fractures surrounded by chemically cemented
sedimentary bedrock. The ridges are therefore potentially fruitful targets
for analysis by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, which is
investigating the rim of this crater.
Illumination is from the upper left.
The image is a detail from a image TRA_000873_1780 in the camera's catalog
[PIA08813], taken on Oct. 3, 2006.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute
of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for
NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space
Systems, Denver, is the prime contractor for the project and built the
spacecraft. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment is operated by
the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the instrument was built by Ball
Aerospace and Technology Corp., Boulder, Colo.
