PIA05714: A Puzzling Crack
This image, acquired by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, highlights the vast plains of Meridiani Planum focusing on a sinous crack consisting of a series of deep dimples sprinkled with rocks.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Panoramic Camera 
 Product Size:  3122 x 1020 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Cornell University 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA05714.tif (1.828 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA05714.jpg (324.9 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:
This image, acquired by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, highlights the vast plains of Meridiani Planum. The science team is currently focused on the sinuous crack, which consists of a series of deep dimples sprinkled with rocks that resemble, from a distance, those in the "Eagle Crater" outcrop. On sol 70, Opportunity drove approximately 100 meters (about 328 feet) northeast to a target area along the crack dubbed "Anatolia." In the coming sols, the rover will study the crack in greater detail.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Cornell

Image Addition Date:
2004-04-06