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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-20 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a target dubbed 'Campbell' on a rock called 'MacKenzie' in 'Endurance Crater.' Opportunity dug a hole into the target with its rock abrasion tool.
PIA06787:
'Campbell' Up Close
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-20 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a target dubbed 'Tuktoyuktuk' on a rock called 'Inuvik' in 'Endurance Crater.' Opportunity dug a hole into the target with its rock abrasion tool.
PIA06788:
'Tuktoyuktuk' Up Close
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-20 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a target dubbed 'Bylot' on the slopes of 'Endurance Crater.' Opportunity dug a hole into the target with its rock abrasion tool.
PIA06789:
'Bylot' Up Close
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-20 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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Sweeping the Dust Away
PIA06791:
Sweeping the Dust Away
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-20 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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Grinding into Soft, Powdery Rock
PIA06792:
Grinding into Soft, Powdery Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
Moessbauer Spectrometer
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Sampling Martian Soil
PIA06881:
Sampling Martian Soil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
Moessbauer Spectrometer
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover microscopic imager onboard Spirit revealed a gap less than half an inch in the imprint left behind in the soil. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA06882:
Sampling Martian Soil (3-D)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-14 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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Layered Outcrops in Gusev Crater
PIA06936:
Layered Outcrops in Gusev Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-04 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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Close-up of 'Tetl' Layers
PIA07022:
Close-up of 'Tetl' Layers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-04 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took this close-up examination of a freshly exposed area of a rock called 'Uchben' in the 'Columbia Hills' of Mars to reveal an assortment of particle shapes and sizes. This image was taken on Oct. 22, 2004.
PIA07023:
Mix of Particles in "Uchben" Close-up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-04 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a close-up look at the surface of a rock called 'Wopmay,' inside 'Endurance Crater,' highlighting crevices and spherical concretions on Mars.
PIA07024:
Close-up of 'Wopmay'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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Closeup View of Compacted Soil
PIA07082:
Closeup View of Compacted Soil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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A Rock Like None Before, Brushed
PIA07186:
A Rock Like None Before, Brushed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-13 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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Brushed Target on Rock
PIA07260:
Brushed Target on Rock "Champagne" in Gusev Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-13 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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Abraded Target on Rock
PIA07261:
Abraded Target on Rock "Champagne" in Gusev Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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Dust Accumulation on Mars
PIA07301:
Dust Accumulation on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-18 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This picture from the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is a mosaic of a target called 'Gagarin' on a rock referred to as 'Yuri.' A circle from which the tool's wire brush has scoured dust off the rock surface is evident.
PIA07480:
Looking Closely at 'Yuri'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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Close-up of 'Davis' on 'Jibsheet' Outcrop
PIA07976:
Close-up of 'Davis' on 'Jibsheet' Outcrop
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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Close-up of 'Keystone' on 'Methuselah' Outcrop
PIA07977:
Close-up of 'Keystone' on 'Methuselah' Outcrop
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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Texture of Rock at 'Jibsheet'
PIA07979:
Texture of Rock at 'Jibsheet'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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On Aug 6, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took this image showing rounded concretions dubbed 'blueberries.' A drill hole cut into a martian rock nicknamed 'Ice Cream' by the rover's rock abrasion tool is also shown.
PIA04168:
Mars Rocks Continue to Fascinate
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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On Aug 9, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity after the rover had ground a hole in the rock called 'Ice Cream' and conducted various scientific experiments, it took this final microscopic image of the hole before driving away.
PIA04169:
Mars Climate Continues to Fascinate
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-01 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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On Aug. 3, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its microscopic imager to take this mosaic of the rock 'Haussmann.' The rounded nature of the pebbles indicates that they were eroded on the surface before being embedded into the rock.
PIA04196:
Focus on 'Rue Legendre'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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Angular Grains of Sand Hint at Short Transport Distance
PIA06410:
Angular Grains of Sand Hint at Short Transport Distance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-15 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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These four images were taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on Nov. 3 and 4, 2005, before and after using the rock abrasion tool on sol 633 to grind into a rock target dubbed 'Kalavrita.'
PIA03202:
A Closer Look at 'Kalavrita'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-02 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its microscopic imager to capture this spectacular, jagged mini-landscape on a rock called 'GongGong.'
PIA02157:
Hardened Lava Meets Wind on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-17 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This image mosaic from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows detailed structure of a small fin-like structure dubbed 'Roosevelt,' which sticks out from the outcrop pavement at the edge of 'Erebus Crater,' taken on Feb. 8, 2006.
PIA02186:
Revealing Roosevelt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-12 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This image shows two shallow, circular holes - one above and one below - that meet in the middle to form an indentation shaped like a figure eight in the Martian soil. The holes are within a larger circular area created by the rock abrasion tool
PIA08455:
Looking for Changes in Soil over Time
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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As NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was traversing southward toward 'Victoria Crater' in May, 2006, it periodically stopping to characterize exposed bedrock, using the contact instrument suite on the robotic arm.
PIA08499:
Close-Up of 'Cheyenne'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-15 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
Panoramic Camera
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On May 20, 2006, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity stopped for the weekend to place its instrument arm onto the soil target pictured here, dubbed 'Alamogordo Creek' highlighting differences among materials in rocks and soil.
PIA08543:
A Peek into 'Alamogordo Creek'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Microscopic Imager
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a particularly bright-looking part of the rock Halley, on Mars. Chemical composition of the bright spots is suggestive of a calcium sulfate mineral.
PIA08566:
Spirit Examines Light-Toned 'Halley' (Microscopic Image)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-13 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows spherules, nicknamed 'blueberries,' at its landing site in 'Eagle Crater,' determined to be iron-rich concretions that formed inside deposits soaked with groundwater.
PIA09077:
Big Spherules near 'Victoria'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-13 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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'King George Island' Brushed
PIA09092:
'King George Island' Brushed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-05-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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On May 18, 2009, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its microscopic imager camera to take a picture of its underside. Though out-of-focus, shown are the rover wheels and underside of the rover.
PIA12012:
Opportunity Photographs Her Underbelly
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-06-03 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This panorama of images from the Spirit rover, taken on Sol 1925 (June 2, 2009), is helping engineers assess the rover's current state and plan her extraction from the soft soil in the region now called 'Troy.'
PIA12102:
Spirit Photographs Her Underbelly, SOL 1925
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its microscopic imager to get this view of the surface of a rock called 'Block Island' during the 1,963rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (Aug. 1, 2009).
PIA12191:
Magnified Look at a Meteorite on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-21 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This stereo view combines a pair of images taken by the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during the 1,925th Martian day (sol) of Spirit's mission on Mars (June 2, 2009). 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA12180:
Spirit's View of Own Underbelly, (Sol 1925 Stereo)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-21 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This stereo view combines a pair of images taken two months apart by the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA12181:
Spirit's View of Own Underbelly, (Stereo from Two Sols)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-21 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This mosaic image was taken with the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit to get a look underneath the rover.
PIA12182:
Spirit's View of Own Underbelly, Sol 1990
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This image from the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows details of the coating on a rock called 'Chocolate Hills,' which the rover found and examined at the edge of a young crater called 'Concepción.'
PIA12970:
Coating on Rock Beside a Young Martian Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-01 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
Panoramic Camera
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This image taken by the NASA's Mars rover Opportunity shows locations of the microscopic imager's observations on a rock informally named 'Tisdale 2.'
PIA14745:
Locations of Microscopic Imager Observations on 'Tisdale 2'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-01 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its microscopic imager to record this close-up view of texture on part of a rock informally named 'Tisdale 2' on the western rim of Endeavour crater. The broken rock fragments are called clasts.
PIA14746:
Magnified View of Texture on Part of "Tisdale 2" Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This close-up view of a mineral vein called 'Homestake' comes from the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity; the vein is found to be rich in calcium and sulfur, possibly the calcium-sulfate mineral gypsum.
PIA15035:
Close-up View of 'Homestake' Vein
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-14 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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Small spherical objects fill the field in this mosaic combining four images from the Microscopic Imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at an outcrop called 'Kirkwood' in the Cape York segment of the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
PIA16139:
Puzzling Little Martian Spheres That Don't Taste Like 'Blueberries'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-17 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This mosaic shot by the microscopic imager on the robotic arm of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a rock target called 'Esperance' after some of the rock's surface had been removed by Opportunity's rock abrasion tool.
PIA16929:
Close-Up of 'Esperance' After Abrasion by Opportunity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-18 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This close-up view of a target rock called 'Last Chance' was acquired by NASA's Mars rover Opportunity on March 3, 2004 of Opportunity's work on Mars. The embedded spherules evident in this image were nicknamed 'blueberries.'
PIA18885:
Clues to Wet History in Texture of a Martian Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-27 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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These small spherules on the Martian surface are near Fram Crater, visited by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity during April 2004. The area shown is 1.2 inches (3 centimeters) across.
PIA19113:
Martian Concretions Near Fram Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-12-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This mosaic combines four frames taken by the microscopic imager on NASA's Opportunity's robotic arm on Oct. 2, 2016 showing relatively bright outcropping of rock, dubbed 'Gasconade' on the western edge of Mars' Endeavour Crater.
PIA21141:
Opportunity Inspects 'Gasconade' on 'Spirit Mound' of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-12-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This image of a target called 'Private Joseph Field' combines four images from the microscopic imager on the robotic arm of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, with enhanced color information added from the rover's panoramic camera.
PIA21142:
Opportunity View of 'Private Joseph Field' on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-26 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This self-portrait of NASA's Opportunity Mars rover shows the vehicle at a site called 'Perseverance Valley' on the slopes of Endeavour Crater. It was taken with the rover's Microscopic Imager to celebrate the 5000th Martian Day, or sol.
PIA22222:
Opportunity's First Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-06-04 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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NASA's Opportunity rover captured an image of this rock nicknamed, Jornada del Muerto, while in Perseverance Valley.
PIA23245:
Opportunity Discovers Dead Man's Journey
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