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PIA04189: Rind-Like Features at a Meridiani Outcrop
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.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Panoramic Camera 
 Product Size:  1024 x 512 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Cornell University 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA04189.tif (1.575 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA04189.jpg (79.2 kB)  

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Annotated image of PIA04189 Rind-Like Features at a Meridiani Outcrop
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Rind-Like Features at a Meridiani Outcrop

After months spent crossing a sea of rippled sands, 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. Opportunity spent several martian days, or sols, analyzing a feature called "Lemon Rind," a thin surface layer covering portions of outcrop rocks poking through the sand north of "Erebus Crater." In images from the panoramic camera, Lemon Rind appears slightly different in color than surrounding rocks. It also appears to be slightly more resistant to wind erosion than the outcrop's interior. This is an approximately true-color composite produced from frames taken during Opportunity's 552nd martian day, or sol (Aug. 13, 2005).

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Cornell

Image Addition Date:
2005-09-01