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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-01 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's shows one octant of a larger panoramic image of 'Lion King' facing directly into the crater and showing small features in the field near the rover arm, to features larger on the horizon.
PIA05672:
Lion King Surveys Homeland
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-02 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows 'Bounce Rock.' There appears to be a dusty coating on the top of parts of the rock, which may have been broken when it was struck by the airbags while rolling to a stop.
PIA05678:
Bounce Rock Snapshot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image, acquired by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, highlights the vast plains of Meridiani Planum focusing on a sinous crack consisting of a series of deep dimples sprinkled with rocks.
PIA05714:
A Puzzling Crack
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-09 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This false-color composite of the rock dubbed 'Bounce' shows the rock after NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity drilled into it with its rock abrasion tool. The drilling of the hole generated a bright powder.
PIA05731:
'Bounce' Exposed
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This approximate true-color panorama from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, dubbed 'Lion King,' shows 'Eagle Crater' and the surrounding plains of Meridiani Planum.
PIA05755:
Opportunity Captures "Lion King" Panorama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-03 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This false-color image NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows visible mineral changes between the materials that make up the rim of the impact crater known as 'Endurance' on Mars.
PIA06013:
The Colors of "Endurance"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-16 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera provides an overview of the rover's drive direction toward 'Endurance Crater,' which is in the upper right corner of image.
PIA05072:
'Endurance' Goal Across the Plains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-22 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity broke its own record for the deepest hole ground into a rock on another planet with a 7.2-millimeter (about 0.28-inch) grind on the rock 'Pilbara,' on the rover's 86th sol on Mars.
PIA05787:
'RAT' Hole on 'Pilbara' (pre-RAT)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity broke its own record for the deepest hole ground into a rock on another planet with a 7.2-millimeter (about 0.28-inch) grind on the rock 'Pilbara,' on the rover's 86th sol on Mars.
PIA05788:
'RAT' Hole on 'Pilbara' (post-RAT)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-28 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image from the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a trench dug by the rover in the vicinity of the 'Anatolia' region. Two imprints from the rover's Moessbauer spectrometer instrument were left in the exposed soils.
PIA05828:
Trench Reveals Two Faces of Soils
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-28 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image taken by NASA;s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rock called 'Pilbara' located in the small crater dubbed 'Fram.' The rock appears to be dotted with the same 'blueberries,' or spherules, found at 'Eagle Crater.'
PIA05829:
Similar on the Inside (pre-grinding)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-28 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image taken by NASA;s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rock called 'Pilbara' located in the small crater dubbed 'Fram.' The rock appears to be dotted with the same 'blueberries,' or spherules, found at 'Eagle Crater.'
PIA05830:
Similar on the Inside (post-grinding)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-28 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This true-color image in reddish hues from the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the target nicknamed 'Hamersley' within 'Fram Crater.' The nature of the outcrop material seen in this location is visibly disrupted.
PIA05832:
'Hamersley' : Not Quite Like 'Eagle Crater'
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This is a forward-looking view of the Meridiani Planum plains that lie between NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity and its primary drive target, 'Endurance Crater.'
PIA05833:
Opportunity Spies Its Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-29 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Animation software used by engineers for planning rover drives portrays the location of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on April 26, 2004, at the successful completion of 90 sols of operating on Mars.
PIA05841:
Opportunity at Time of Full Mission Success
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This image mosaic from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera was taken from a rover position of the rim of
PIA05847:
'Endurance' Looms on the Horizon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This approximate true-color image taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the impact crater known as 'Endurance.'
PIA05867:
A Crater of Clues to Mars' Buried Past
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This 3D model superimposes NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on a scientific treasure chest of martian rocks contained within the landing site, a crater on Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05868:
A Precious Opportunity
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This approximate true-color image taken by the panoramic camera NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights the vertical drop on a feature called 'Burns Cliff' within the impact crater known as 'Endurance.'
PIA05869:
'Burns Cliff' Beckons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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A model of NASA's Opportunity rover has been superimposed on top of an approximate true-color image showing its approximate size in relation to the impressive impact crater dubbed 'Endurance' on Mars.
PIA05870:
'Endurance': A Daunting Challenge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image highlights the 'Karatepe' ingress, where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity began its traverse down into 'Endurance Crater' on July 5, 2004.
PIA05871:
'Karatepe': An Approachable Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-13 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This approximate true-color image of the rock called 'Lion Stone' was acquired by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera on May 9, 2004.
PIA05911:
A Lion of a Stone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-26 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This view taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on April 23, 2004 in approximately true color reveals details in an impact crater informally named 'Fram' in the Meridian Planum region of Mars. The crater spans about 26 feet in diameter.
PIA05990:
'Fram' in Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-03 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image was taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity showing 'Panoramic Position 2' on the southeast side of the rim of 'Endurance' Crater on Mars.
PIA06018:
"Pyrrho" Mania
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-09 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity panoramic camera shows a downward view from the rover as it sits at the edge of 'Endurance' crater. The gradual, 'blueberry'-strewn slope contains an exposed dark layer of rock.
PIA06046:
Downward Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-16 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This panoramic view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the 'Karatepe' ingress at the edge of 'Endurance Crater' on Mars.
PIA06276:
Crater of Clues
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a hole it drilled into a flat rock dubbed 'Tennessee' on Mars. At least three distinct bands of rock visible in front of the rover.
PIA06277:
'Tennessee' Clues
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This false-color image shows the area inside 'Endurance Crater' examined by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The rover is investigated the distinct layers of rock that make up this region.
PIA06317:
'Endurance' Tells Story of Mars' History
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the slope of 'Endurance Crater' where the rover cut three holes. The shadow from the rover's camera mast is visible.
PIA06321:
'Endurance' Tells Story of Mars' History
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-02 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the slope of 'Endurance Crater' where the rover cut three holes.
PIA06355:
Three Fresh Exposures in 'Endurance' Layers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-02 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the slope of 'Endurance Crater' where the rover cut three holes.
PIA06356:
Three Fresh Exposures, Enhanced Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-02 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the slope of 'Endurance Crater' where the rover cut three holes.
PIA06357:
Three Fresh Exposures, Stretched Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-17 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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The pointy features in this image generate major scientific interest. Dubbed 'Razorback,' this chunk of rock sticks up at the edge of flat rocks in 'Endurance Crater' as seen by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
PIA06692:
The 'Razorback' Mystery
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-27 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera is a false-color composite rendering of the first seven holes that the rover's rock abrasion tool dug on the inner slope of 'Endurance Crater' on Mars.
PIA06727:
False-Color View of a 'Rat' Hole Trail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-27 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera is a true-color composite rendering of the first seven holes that the rover's rock abrasion tool dug on the inner slope of 'Endurance Crater' on Mars.
PIA06728:
Color View of a 'Rat' Hole Trail Inside 'Endurance'
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows dramatic rippling dune fields on crater floors in 'Endurance Crater' on Mars.
PIA06753:
'Endurance Crater's' Dazzling Dunes (false-color)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows dramatic rippling dune fields on crater floors in 'Endurance Crater' on Mars.
PIA06754:
'Endurance Crater's' Dazzling Dunes
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its panoramic camera to capture this false-color image of the interior of 'Endurance Crater' on the rover's 188th martian day (Aug. 4, 2004).
PIA06761:
"Endurance" Courtesy of Mars Express
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the dunes that line the floor of 'Endurance Crater.' Small-scale ripples on top of the larger dune waves are evident.
PIA06774:
Ripples in the Ripples
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This image taken on Aug. 11, 2004 by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a bizarre, lumpy rock dubbed 'Wopmay' on the inner slopes of 'Endurance Crater' on Mars.
PIA06775:
Weird 'Endurance' Rock Ahead
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows winter clouds drifting across the skies at 'Endurance Crater' in Mars' Meridiani Planum.
PIA06776:
Cloudy Skies on Mars Animation Icon
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity examined a type of rougher-textured, lighter-colored round pebbles related to the smoother, darker spherules nicknamed 'blueberries' inside 'Endurance Crater' on Mars.
PIA06777:
Two Types of Round Pebbles in 'Endurance'
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a dark spot determined to be a pebble that caused its rock abrasion tool to sope working on Aug. 15, 2004.
PIA06780:
Pebble Jammed in Rock Abrasion Tool
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took this approximate true-color image on Aug. 16, 2004 to determine if a stuck pebble had jammed its rock abrasion tool.
PIA06852:
Pebble Puzzle Solved
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This false-color image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a rock dubbed 'Escher' on the southwestern slopes of 'Endurance Crater' on Mars.
PIA06918:
'Escher' Rock
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This false-color image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a rock informally named 'Earhart' on the lower slopes of 'Endurance Crater' on Mars. The rock was named after the pilot Amelia Earhart.
PIA06919:
'Earhart' Rock
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This approximate true-color image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows an unusual, lumpy rock informally named 'Wopmay' on the lower slopes of 'Endurance Crater' on Mars.
PIA06920:
'Wopmay' Rock
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On Oct. 7, 2004, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity examined a boulder called 'Wopmay' on Mars, accentuating iron-rich spherical concretions as bluish dots embedded in the rock and on the ground around it.
PIA07025:
'Wopmay' in False Color
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity taken Dec. 3, 2004, shows light rocks and dark rocks along the rim of 'Endurance Crater' on Mars. The pictured rock, 'Tipuna,' lies just under the dividing line, in the dark section.
PIA07101:
Tantalizing 'Tipuna'
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity tried to get as detailed a look as possible at a target region near eastern foot of 'Burns Cliff.' The intervening layered terrain was too difficult for driving the rover closer.
PIA07107:
Angled Layers in Super Resolution
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A thin frost was observed by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera on Oct. 13, 2004, 11 minutes after sunrise. The presence of frost is most clearly seen on the post in the center of the target.
PIA07108:
Frost on Mars Rover Opportunity
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this view in 2004 of 'Burns Cliff' after driving right to the base of this southeastern portion of the inner wall of 'Endurance Crater.'
PIA07110:
'Burns Cliff' Color Panorama
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took this image when the rover was 427 feet from its heat shield on Dec. 19, 2004. The protective device shielded the rover from intense frictional heat as it entered the martian atmosphere.
PIA07147:
Heat Shield Ahead
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This image taken on Dec. 23, 2004 by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows remains of the heat shield that protected the spacecraft as it barreled through the martian atmosphere.
PIA07223:
Opportunity's Heat Shield in Color, Sol 325
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This image taken on Jan. 2, 2005 by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows remains of the heat shield that protected the spacecraft as it barreled through the martian atmosphere.
PIA07224:
Opportunity's Heat Shield in Color, Sol 335
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity taken Jan. 31, 2008 shows bedrock within a stratigraphic layer dubbed 'Gilbert' after the rover examined a bright band around the inside of Victoria Crater.
PIA10239:
Opportunity View of 'Gilbert' Layer (False Color)
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On Jan. 6, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found an iron meteorite on Mars, the first meteorite of any type ever identified on another planet. The pitted, basketball-size object is mostly made of iron and nickel.
PIA07269:
Iron Meteorite on Mars
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity compares the dust that accumulated on the calibration camera on Feb. 16, 2004 and Jan. 13, 2005. The the surfaces had become only mildly dusty compared to shortly after landing.
PIA07302:
Dust on Mars: Before and After (Opportunity)
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This image taken on Dec. 19 and 20, 2004 by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the downward-looking view omits the mast on which the camera is mounted. It shows Opportunity's solar panels to be relatively dust-free.
PIA07372:
Opportunity Self-Portrait, Sols 322-323
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reveals the scene of the rover's heat shield impact that protected it while hurtling through the martian atmosphere. This image was taken on Dec. 19, 2004.
PIA07401:
Opportunity's Heat Shield Scene
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This image taken on Dec. 28, 2004 by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity features an up-close view of the flank piece of the rover's broken heat shield laying on the red soil of martian terrain.
PIA07403:
Heat Shield Flank Close Up
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the remains of its heat shield, broken into two key pieces, the main piece on the left side and a broken-off flank piece. The heat shield impact site is identified by the circle of red dust.
PIA07402:
Heat Shield in Pieces
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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.
PIA07404:
Studying the Heat Shield's Seal
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity features a cross section through the structure and thermal protection system of the its heat shield. Six separation fittings were used to join and separate the heat shield from the backshell.
PIA07405:
A Slice of the Heat Shield
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took a detailed look at what was once the exterior of its heat shield. Hitting the martian surface inverted the heat shield, making it difficult to photograph the outside.
PIA07406:
Exterior of Opportunity Heat Shield, Sol 344
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This cylindrical projection shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's view of its surroundings on Feb. 19, 2005. Opportunity had reached the eastern edge of a small crater dubbed 'Naturaliste,' seen in the right foreground.
PIA07428:
Record Drive Day, Opportunity Sol 383
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On Feb. 19, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity set a one-day distance record for martian driving; Opportunity rolled 177.5 meters (582 feet) across the plain of Meridiani. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA07429:
Record Drive Day, Opportunity Sol 383 (3-D)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity set a one-day distance record for martian driving which began on Feb. 19, 2005. Opportunity rolled across the plain of Meridiani on that sol. This is a polar projection.
PIA07430:
Record Drive Day, Opportunity Sol 383 (polar)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity set a one-day distance record for martian driving which began on Feb. 19, 2005. Opportunity rolled across the plain of Meridiani on that sol. This is a vertical projection.
PIA07431:
Record Drive Day, Opportunity Sol 383 (vertical)
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On April 29, 2005, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity woke up approximately an hour after sunset and took this picture of the fading twilight as the stars began to come out. Set against the fading red glow of the sky, is the pale dot of Earth.
PIA07228:
Earth as Seen from Mars
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This panoramic image, dubbed 'Rub al Khali,' was acquired by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on the plains of Meridiani during the period from the May 6 to May 14, 2005. Opportunity was at a place known informally as 'Purgatory Dune.'
PIA07216:
Opportunity's 'Rub al Khali' Panorama
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reached an outcrop in August 2005 and began investigating exposures of sedimentary rocks, intriguing rind-like features that appear to cap the rocks, and cobbles that dot the martian surface locally.
PIA04158:
Rind-Like Features at a Meridiani Outcrop
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After months spent crossing a sea of rippled sands, NASA's Opportunity rover reached an outcrop in August 2005 and began investigating exposures of sedimentary rocks, intriguing rind-like features that appear to cap the rocks.
PIA04189:
Rind-Like Features at a Meridiani Outcrop
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On Aug. 22, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, captured the nature of the outcrop rocks that the rover is encountering on its southward journey across the martian plains to 'Erebus Crater.'
PIA04195:
Opportunity Examines Cracks and Coatings on Mars Rocks
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This is a mosaic of Erebus Crater, assembled from some of the images taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity during the rover's 590th sol (Sept. 21, 2005).
PIA06341:
'Erebus Crater' on the Horizon
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This image, taken Oct. 9, 2005 by NASA's rover Opportunity, is a portion of a mosaic that highlights the light-toned outcrop on the rim of 'Erebus Crater' and large, dark, wind-deposited drifts that have filled the center of the crater.
PIA03065:
Dodging the Drifts
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This view from the NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows an outcrop called 'Olympia' along the northwestern margin of 'Erebus' crater. A dry cracked surface a broad expanse of sulfate-rich sedimentary rocks.
PIA03621:
Opportunity's 'Olympia' Panorama
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The center upper portion of this image shows a portion of the rim of 'Erebus Crater' in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars. This approximately true-color view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was acquired on Nov. 28, 2005.
PIA03622:
Rim of 'Erebus'
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Synthetic image of the Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover inside 'Endurance Crater' produced using 'Virtual Presence in Space' technology.
PIA03240:
Opportunity Inside 'Endurance Crater' (Simulated)
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Synthetic image of the Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover inside on 'Burns Cliff' produced using 'Virtual Presence in Space' technology.
PIA03241:
Opportunity on 'Burns Cliff' (Simulated)
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This is the Opportunity panoramic camera's 'Erebus Rim' panorama, acquired on sols 652 to 663 (Nov. 23 to Dec. 5, 2005 ), as NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was exploring sand dunes and outcrop rocks in Meridiani Planum.
PIA03270:
On the Rim of 'Erebus'
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This view combines frames taken by the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on the rover's 652nd through 663rd Martian days, or sols (Nov. 23 to Dec. 5, 2005), at the edge of 'Erebus Crater.'
PIA03271:
Bird's-Eye View of Opportunity at 'Erebus' (Polar)
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This view combines frames taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on Nov. 23 to Dec. 5, 2005, at the edge of 'Erebus Crater.' The view here shows outcrop rocks, sand dunes, and other features.
PIA03273:
Bird's-Eye View of Opportunity at 'Erebus' (Vertical)
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This image from the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the best examples yet seen in Meridiani Planum outcrop rocks of well-preserved, fine-scale layering and what geologists call 'cross-lamination.'
PIA03279:
'Festoon' Pattern in Meridiani Outcrop
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This stereo view shows the landscape surrounding NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at the edge of 'Erebus Crater.' 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA03695:
Erebus Panorama in Stereo
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The panoramic camera aboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity acquired this panorama of the 'Payson' outcrop on the western edge of 'Erebus' Crater during Opportunity's sol 744 (Feb. 26, 2006).
PIA02695:
'Payson' Panorama in False Color
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The panoramic camera aboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity acquired this panorama of the 'Payson' outcrop on the western edge of 'Erebus' Crater during Opportunity's sol 744 (Feb. 26, 2006).
PIA02696:
'Payson' Panorama by Opportunity
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This view shows a portion of the outcrop named 'Bosque,' including rover wheel tracks, fractured and finely-layered outcrop rocks and smaller, dark cobbles littered across the surface
PIA08084:
Paved Path for Opportunity
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This pair of images from the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity served as initial confirmation that the two-year-old rover was within sight of 'Victoria Crater,' which it has been approaching for more than a year.
PIA08446:
Stretched View Showing 'Victoria'
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This view was taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on April 27, 2006, as it continued to traverse from Erebus Crater toward Victoria Crater, the rover navigated along exposures of bedrock between large, wind-blown ripples.
PIA08466:
Cobbles in Troughs Between Meridiani Ripples (False Color)
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This panoramic view was taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on April 27, 2006, as it continued to traverse from Erebus Crater toward Victoria Crater, the rover navigated along exposures of bedrock between large, wind-blown ripples.
PIA08467:
Cobbles in Troughs Between Meridiani Ripples
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the outcrop-rimmed 'Beagle Crater' appearing on the horizon as the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity approached it on June 20, 2006. Blocks of ejecta can be seen around the prominent, raised rim of Beagle crater.
PIA08565:
Stretched View Showing 'Beagle Crater'
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured a sweeping stereo image of 'Burns Cliff' after driving right to the base of this southeastern portion of the inner wall of 'Endurance Crater' in November 2004. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA08578:
'Burns Cliff' in Color Stereo
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This false-color image taken on June 7, 2006, shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's had become embedded within an unexpectedly deep and very fine-grained ripple, named 'Jammerbugt' and spent the next eight sols extricating itself.
PIA08618:
Peering at Pesky 'Jammerbugt' (False Color)
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This true-color image taken on June 7, 2006, shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's had become embedded within an unexpectedly deep and very fine-grained ripple, named 'Jammerbugt' and spent the next eight sols extricating itself.
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Peering at Pesky 'Jammerbugt'
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity acquired this false-color image of the rim Beagle Crater July 30, 2006. The image reveals ejecta blocks near the rover and a portion of the eastern interior rim of Beagle Crater, which appears composed of jumbled.
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Opportunity Approaches the Bowl of Beagle Crater (False Color)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity acquired this true-color image of the rim Beagle Crater July 30, 2006. The image reveals ejecta blocks near the rover and a portion of the eastern interior rim of Beagle Crater.
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Opportunity Approaches the Bowl of Beagle Crater (True Color)
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This false-color image shows a circular indentation in a flat-topped rock surface. Around the edge of the hole is a fine layer of reddish dust. The rock is light tan with a moderately cracked the surface. Around it is a layer of bluish sand and pebbles.
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Opportunity Takes a Last Look at Rock Exposure Before Heading to 'Victoria Crater' (False Color)
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This true-color image shows a circular indentation in a flat-topped rock surface. Around the edge of the hole is a fine layer of dust. The rock has a moderately cracked the surface. Around it is a layer of sand and pebbles. The view is reddish brown.
PIA08700:
Opportunity Takes a Last Look at Rock Exposure Before Heading to 'Victoria Crater'
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This image shows a circular indentation in a rock surface surrounded by rock powder. The bottom of the circular indentation has a trio of cracks that intersect in the center. The embedded in the ground surface are tiny roundish grains of rock.
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Opportunity Takes a Last Look at Rock Exposure Before Heading to 'Victoria Crater'(Microscopic Imager View)
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