PIA05150: Ring Around the Rover
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.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Navigation Camera 
 Product Size:  1231 x 1231 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA05150.tif (870.7 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA05150.jpg (143.6 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:
This polar projection of an image from the navigation camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows an overhead perspective of the rover. Opportunity's view of the martian horizon can also be seen in this image, taken shortly after the rover touched down at Meridiani Planum, Mars at 9:05 p.m. PST on Saturday, Jan. 24.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
2004-01-26