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PIA03616: Partway to 'Victoria'
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.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey 
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) 
Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  2001 Mars Odyssey
Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter
Opportunity
 Instrument:  Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES) 
Mars Orbiter Camera 
Thermal Emission Imaging System 
 Product Size:  1411 x 2043 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA03616.tif (8.665 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA03616.jpg (265.7 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This image shows the route that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had driven through its 659th Martian day, or sol, (Dec. 1, 2005) relative to the potential destination of "Victoria Crater" farther south. The base image is a portion of a mosaic (previously released as PIA07506) combining images from the Mars Observer Camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter, the Thermal Emission Imaging System on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, and Opportunity's own Descent Image Motion Estimation System. The scale bar at lower right is 800 meters (one-half mile).

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/OSU

Image Addition Date:
2005-12-05