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PIA05442: Opportunity at El Capitan
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity casts a shadow over the El Capitan area on Mars. Opportunity used its rock abrasion tool to grind a small hole into Opportunity Ledge.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Hazcam 
Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) 
 Product Size:  512 x 512 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA05442.tif (262.6 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA05442.jpg (38.01 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity casts a shadow over the El Capitan area that the rover is examining with tools on its robotic arm. Opportunity took this image with its front hazard-avoidance camera on Feb. 23, 2004, during the rover's 29th martian day, or sol. Opportunity used its rock abrasion tool to grind a small hole into Opportunity Ledge later on sol 29 to prepare for using the other tools on its arm to analyze the freshly exposed rock during subsequent sols.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
2004-02-24