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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-02-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This map of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's new neighborhood at Meridiani Planum, Mars, demonstrates how engineers honed in on the location of the rover. The larger blue ellipse shows the projected landing area just before arriving at Mars.
PIA05224:
Found You!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
THEMIS
THEMIS
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This image shows the abundance and location of the mineral grey hematite at NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's landing site, Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05154:
Targeting a Hematite-rich Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-02-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
Thermal Emission Imaging System
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This map of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's new neighborhood at Meridiani Planum, Mars, shows the surface features used to locate the rover. The rover's precise location was determined by imaging the 'bumps' on the horizon.
PIA05228:
"X" Marks the Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES)
Mars Orbiter Camera
Thermal Emission Imaging System
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This combined image taken by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey, and Mars Global Surveyor, shows the route that Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had taken its landing site inside 'Victoria Crater' to its position on Dec. 1, 2005.
PIA03616:
Partway to 'Victoria'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-09 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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This panoramic image of the 3.1 millimeter-deep (just over one-tenth of an inch) hole ground by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's rock abrasion tool in the target called 'Mojo 2' on 'Flatrock' was taken on the 44th martian day.
PIA05521:
Focus on "Flatrock"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-05 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This 3-dimensional model shows a region of the outcrop near NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's landing site dubbed 'Last Chance.' The model was created with images taken by the rover's panoramic camera.
PIA05503:
Rare Glance at "Last Chance"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This image composite shows two of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's magnets, the 'capture' magnet (upper portion of left panel) and the 'filter' magnet (lower portion of left panel).
PIA05515:
Rules of Attraction
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-09 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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This microscopic image of 'Flatrock,' taken on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's 43rd sol on Mars, is representative of the science team's goal at the rock outcrop under investigation at Meridiani Planum.
PIA05520:
Fleshing out "Flatrock"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This image mosaic from the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the distant horizon from Opportunity's position inside a small crater at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05514:
Opportunity's Heatshield on the Horizon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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The red marks in this image, taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera, indicate holes made by the rover's rock abrasion tool, located on its instrument deployment device, or 'arm.'
PIA05513:
"Hole" Lotta Grindin' Going On
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This image composite highlights a close-up of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's 'sweep' magnet the dark ring that collects magnetic airborne particles which scientists use to study the origins of dust in the atmosphere.
PIA05512:
Martian Dust Mostly Magnetic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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This illustration shows the locations of the various magnets on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover, which are: its front side, or chest; its back, near the color calibration target; and on its rock abrasion tool.
PIA05511:
Rover Magnets All Around
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the results of grinding of its first target with the rock abrasion tool. The grinding process at 'McKittrick' generated a significant amount of fine-grained, reddish dust.
PIA05510:
Messy Grind
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the results of the second drilling by the rock abrasion tool. The drilling took place on a target called 'Guadalupe' in the 'El Capitan' region of the Meridiani Planum, Mars, rock outcrop.
PIA05509:
Seeing Red at Guadalupe
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the outcrop that sits just inside the small crater where the rover landed. The region dubbed 'El Capitan,' is where scientists gained their first clues to the outcrop's watery past.
PIA05508:
Spotlight on "El Capitan"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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This 3-dimensional model shows a postage-stamp-sized patch of the rock target in the outcrop near NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's landing site. A sliced sphere-like particle, or 'blueberry' can be seen.
PIA05507:
"Blueberry" Exposed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rover's rock abrasion tool before and after it ground into a rock at Meridiani Planum, Mars. The red dust coating on the instrument is thought to be a form of the mineral hematite.
PIA05505:
You Dirty Rat!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-05 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the two holes that allowed scientists to peer into Meridiani Planum's wet past. The rover drilled the holes into rocks in the region dubbed 'El Capitan' with its rock abrasion tool.
PIA05504:
Windows to Meridiani's Water-Soaked Past
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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One of two Mars Exploration Rovers sits inside its cruise stage waitingto undergo environmental testing at NASA's Jet PropulsionLaboratory.
PIA04821:
Mars Exploration Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Mars Exploration Rover (MER) spacecraft. This image shows the aeroshell, which includes the backshell as well as the heatshield.
PIA04822:
Mars Exploration Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Mars Exploration Rover (MER) spacecraft -- areoshell (encapsulating the rover and lander) plus cruise stage.
PIA04823:
Mars Exploration Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Mars Exploration Rover (MER) spacecraft -- areoshell (encapsulating the rover and lander) plus cruise stage.
PIA04824:
Mars Exploration Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Mars Exploration Rover (MER) spacecraft -- areoshell (encapsulating the rover and lander) plus cruise stage.
PIA04825:
Mars Exploration Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Rover team members with the Mars Exploration Rover.
PIA04826:
Rover Team
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Two generations of Rovers.
PIA04827:
Two Generations of Rovers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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The Mars Exploration Rover-2 is moved to a workstand in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility.
PIA04828:
Rover 2 Moved to Workstand
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Engineers for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission are completing assembly and testing for the twin robotic geologists at JPL.
PIA04834:
Mars Exploration Rover 1
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Engineers for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission are completing assembly and testing for the twin robotic geologists at JPL.
PIA04835:
Mars Exploration Rover 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-11-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians reopen the lander petals of the Mars Exploration Rover 2 (MER-2) to allow access to one of the spacecraft's circuit boards.
PIA04848:
Lander Petals of Rover 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-11-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the lander petals of the Mars Exploration Rover 2 (MER-2) have been reopened and its solar panels deployed to allow technicians access to the spacecraft to remove one of its circuit boards.
PIA04849:
Rover 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-11-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians remove one of the circuit boards on the Mars Exploration Rover 2 (MER-2).
PIA04850:
Circuit Boards on Rover 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-11-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This closeup shows the size of the computer chip that holds about 35,000 laser-engraved signatures of visitors to the Mars Exploration Rovers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA04851:
Chip with 35,000 Signatures
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-11-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Air bags are installed on the lander on Mars Exploration Rover 1 (MER-1).
PIA04852:
Air Bag Installation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-11-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility prepare the heat shield that will be attached to the backshell, surrounding Mars Exploration Rover 1 (MER-1).
PIA04853:
Heat Shield Preparation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-11-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers prepare to lift the Mars Exploration Rover-1 (MER-B) onto a spin table during preflight processing of the spacecraft.
PIA04854:
Preflight Processing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-28 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This image captured by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera shows in superb detail a portion of the puzzling rock outcropping showing layered rocks thought to be either volcanic ash deposits or sediments carried by water or wind.
PIA05060:
Opportunity Rocks!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-28 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows in superb detail a portion of the puzzling rock outcropping the rover investigated.
PIA05160:
Opportunity Rocks!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
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This 360-degree panorama from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rover shortly after it touched down at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05138:
First Panoramic Look at Meridiani Planum, Mars
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Navigation Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's first breathtaking views of the martian landscape after its successful landing at Meridiani Planum on Mars. On the left, the rover's mast can be seen in a stowed position.
PIA05139:
Meridiani Planum in View
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Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's first breathtaking views of the martian landscape after its successful landing at Meridiani Planum on Mars.
PIA05140:
Meridiani Planum Soil
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Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's first views of the martian soil were in shadows after its successful landing at Meridiani Planum on Mars.
PIA05141:
Meridiani Planum Soil-2
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Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a grainy image where the rover's airbags left impressions in the martian soil. The drag marks were made after the rover successfully landed at Meridiani Planum and its airbags were retracted.
PIA05142:
Airbag Impressions in Soil
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Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows where the rover's airbag seams left impressions in the martian soil. The drag marks were made after the rover successfully landed at Meridiani Planum and its airbags were retracted.
PIA05143:
Airbag Seams Leave Trails
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This color image in dark red hues shows the martian landscape at Meridiani Planum, where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity successfully landed. A portion of the rover is in the foreground.
PIA05144:
Meridiani Planum in Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's hazard-identification camera shortly after the rover successfully landed at Meridiani Planum shows the view from behind the rover.
PIA05145:
First Look Behind Opportunity
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Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES)
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Scientists believe the circular feature in this image to be a crater near NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The rover landed at Meridiani Planum on Mars at approximately 9:05 p.m. PST on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2004.
PIA05146:
Crater Down Below-3
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Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES)
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Scientists believe the circular feature in this image to be a crater near NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The rover landed at Meridiani Planum on Mars at approximately 9:05 p.m. PST on Saturday, Jan. 24.
PIA05147:
Crater Down Below-2
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Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES)
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Scientists believe the circular feature in this image to be a crater near NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The rover landed at Meridiani Planum on Mars at approximately 9:05 p.m. PST on Saturday, Jan. 24.
PIA05148:
Crater Down Below
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Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the view of the martian landscape southwest of the rover. The image was taken in the late martian afternoon at Meridiani Planum on Mars
PIA05149:
A Curious Landscape
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Navigation Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows an overhead perspective of the rover. Opportunity's view of the martian horizon can also be seen in this overhead perspective of the rover at Meridiani Planum.
PIA05150:
Ring Around the Rover
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Navigation Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows an overhead perspective of the rover. Opportunity's view of the martian horizon can also be seen in this overhead perspective of the rover at Meridiani Planum.
PIA05151:
Over the Rover
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Panoramic Camera
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The interior of a crater in red hues showing a mixture of coarse gray grains and fine reddish grains surrounding NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at Meridiani Planum on Mars;
PIA05152:
A Hole in One
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Panoramic Camera
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This three-dimensional model superimposes NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on one of its potential targets, a scientific treasure chest of martian rocks contained within the landing site, a crater on Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05157:
A Precious Opportunity
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Panoramic Camera
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This sweeping look at the unusual rock outcropping near NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA05158:
Not of this Earth
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Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights the flat and dark terrain of its landing site at Meridiani Planum.
PIA05159:
Shades and Shapes of Mars
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Panoramic Camera
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Circular shapes seen on the martian surface in these images are 'footprints' left by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's airbags during landing as the spacecraft gently rolled to a stop.
PIA05161:
Airbag Tracks on Mars
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Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights a portion of a puzzling reddish hue rock outcropping thought to be either volcanic ash deposits or sediments carried by water or wind.
PIA05162:
Opportunity Rocks Again!
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Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights a portion of a puzzling reddish hue rock outcropping thought to be either volcanic ash deposits or sediments carried by water or wind.
PIA05163:
A Geologist's Treasure Trove
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Hazcam
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This image taken at Meridiani Planum, shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's wheels in their stowed configuration. As January 28, 2004, the rover had deployed its wheels and completed the first half of the stand-up process.
PIA05164:
An Opportunity to Rise
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Hazcam
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This image taken at Meridiani Planum, shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's wheels in their stowed configuration. As January 28, 2004, the rover had deployed its wheels and completed the first half of the stand-up process.
PIA05166:
A Higher Opportunity Animation Icon
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Panoramic Camera
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A 3-D topographic map shows the martian crater cradling NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
PIA05172:
A Unique Opportunity
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Panoramic Camera
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A 3-D topographic map shows the martian crater cradling NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
PIA05173:
An Intimate Look at a Martian Crater
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Hazcam
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This image taken at Meridiani Planum, shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's wheels in their stowed configuration. As January 28, 2004, the rover had deployed its wheels and completed the first half of the stand-up process.
PIA05168:
Opportunity Prepares for Egress
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Hazcam
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This image taken at Meridiani Planum, shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's lander before and after it successfully tilted itself forward by hyperextending its rear lander petal downward.
PIA05169:
Opportunity Lowers for Egress (animation) Animation Icon
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Navigation Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rover's egress aid touching the martian soil at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05170:
Opportunity Egress Aid Contacts Soil
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Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer
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This spectrum captured by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's mini-thermal emission spectrometer shows the presence of grey hematite in the martian soil at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05179:
Hematite on Mars!
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Navigation Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rover and now-empty lander that had carried it 283 million miles to Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05180:
Opportunity and Its Mother Ship
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This image taken at Meridiani Planum on Jan 31, 2004, confirmed that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's six wheels rolled off the lander and onto martian soil and shows its view of the martian horizon.
PIA05181:
No Looking Back
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This image taken at Meridiani Planum on Jan 31, 2004 shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's now-empty lander that carried the rover 283 million miles to Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05182:
Opportunity on Its Own
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This 3-D image captured by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's rear hazard-identification camera shows the now-empty lander that carried the rover 283 million miles to Meridiani Planum, Mars. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA05183:
Vacant Lander in 3-D
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Navigation Camera
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A screenshot from the software used by engineers to roll NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity off its lander and onto martian soil.
PIA05184:
Virtual Rover on Its Own
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Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows, a rock outcrop at Meridiani Planum, Mars. Each color on the spectra matches a line on the graph assessing the varying mineral compositions of martian rocks and soils.
PIA05190:
Rock Outcrop Spectra
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Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the 'Lily Pad' bounce-mark area at Meridiani Planum, Mars. The green spectra is from the undisturbed surface and the red spectra is from the airbag bounce mark. 
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PIA05192:
Lily Pad Spectra
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This image taken at Meridiani Planum in 2004 shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's arm in its extended position.
PIA05193:
Opportunity Stretches Out
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rover's rock abrasion tool, also known as 'rat' (circular device in center), located on its instrument deployment device, or 'arm.'
PIA05194:
Rat on Mars
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Panoramic Camera
Microscopic Imager
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rover's rock abrasion tool, also known as 'rat' (circular device in center), located on its instrument deployment device, or 'arm.'
PIA05195:
Microscope on Mars
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Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rover's alpha particle X-ray spectrometer (circular device in center), located on its instrument deployment device, or 'arm.'
PIA05196:
X-ray Machine on Mars
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Moessbauer Spectrometer
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rover's Moessbauer spectrometer (circular device in center), located on its instrument deployment device, or 'arm.'
PIA05197:
Moessbauer on Mars
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Hazcam
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This is a three-dimensional stereo anaglyph of an image taken by the front hazard-identification camera onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, showing the rover's arm in its extended position. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA05198:
Opportunity Stretches Out (3-D)
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Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the expansive view of the martian real estate. he airbag marks, or footprints, seen in the soil trace the route by which the rover rolled to its final resting spot inside a small crater at Meridiani Planum.
PIA05199:
As Far as Opportunity's Eye Can See
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Moessbauer Spectrometer
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This spectrum of the soil at NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's landing site, Meridiani Planum, shows the presence of the shiny green mineral called olivine also seen at the rover's landing site, Gusev Crater.
PIA05203:
Meridiani's Autograph
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Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer
Panoramic Camera
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This map of a portion of the small crater currently encircling NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows where crystalline hematite resides. Red and orange patches indicate high levels of iron-bearing mineral, while blue and green denote low levels.
PIA05204:
Thar be Hematite!
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This image taken at Meridiani Planum in 2004 shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's arm in its extended position.
PIA05205:
Poised for Discovery
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Microscopic Imager
Navigation Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights the patch of soil in a shallow crater at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05206:
Mars in a Grain of Sand
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a magnified view of coarse grains sprinkled over a fine layer of sand in Meridiani Planum on Mars.
PIA05207:
Mars Under the Microscope
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Microscopic Imager
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity look at the martian soil of its landing site, Meridiani Planum. Coarse grains are sprinkled over a fine layer of sand.
PIA05208:
Mars Under the Microscope (color)
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Microscopic Imager
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows coarse grains sprinkled over a fine layer of sand at its landing site, Meridiani Planum on Mars.
PIA05209:
Mars Under the Microscope (stretched)
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This 3-D view from behind NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the path the rover has traveled since rolling 1 meter (3 feet) away from its empty lander on the seventh martian day, or sol, of its mission. 3D glasses are necessary.
PIA05212:
Traversing Martian Terrain
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This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity as it drove north towards the eastern edge of the rock outcropping near its landing site at Meridiani Planum, Mars in 2004.
PIA05211:
Forging Ahead (linearized) Animation Icon
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows soil at Meridiani Planum, Mars. The sandy soil is loosely packed.
PIA05213:
Now You See Them, Now You Don't Animation Icon
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This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity as it drove north away from the lander and towards the eastern edge of the rock outcropping near its landing site at Meridiani Planum, Mars in 2004.
PIA05214:
Rear View of Opportunity's Drive Animation Icon
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This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity as it drove north away from the lander and towards the eastern edge of the rock outcropping near its landing site at Meridiani Planum, Mars in 2004.
PIA05215:
Forging Ahead Animation Icon
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Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES)
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This computer-generated visualization depicts an overhead view of the path NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took when it landed at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05225:
Opportunity's Hole in One
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Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES)
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This computer-generated visualization depicts a side view of the path Opportunity took when it landed at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05226:
Opportunity's Hole in One (Side View)
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Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES)
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In this close-up view of the path NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took when it landed at Meridiani Planum, Mars, a computer-generated red line shows the spacecraft's bounce motions as it landed at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05227:
Opportunity Bounces to a Stop
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From its location at the inner edge of the small crater surrounding it, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was able to look out to the plains where its backshell and parachute landed.
PIA05233:
Opportunity Spies Its Backshell
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A colored square in this grayscale image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights the location of Stone Mountain, located within the rock outcrop at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05234:
Stone Mountain in Context
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This red-hued color image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the part of the rock outcrop dubbed Stone Mountain at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05235:
Stone Mountain
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This false-color image (purple surface and blue rock) taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights the spherules, or tiny spheres, that speckle the rock dubbed Stone Mountain.
PIA05236:
Speckled with Spherules
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Microscopic Imager
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This sharp, close-up image taken by the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's instrument deployment device, or 'arm,' shows a rock target dubbed 'Robert E,' located on the rock outcrop at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05237:
Mars Rock Formation Poses Mystery
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