PIA05850: Approaching 'Endurance' (left eye)
This cylindrical projection was taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on April 28, 2004. On that sol, Opportunity sat on the rippled dunes a ways from the rim of 'Endurance Crater.'
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Navigation Camera 
 Product Size:  2739 x 1141 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA05850.tif (2.145 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA05850.jpg (388.2 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This cylindrical-perspective projection was constructed from a sequence of images taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's navigation camera on the rover's 93rd sol on Mars. The mosaic was created from three images from the camera's left eye. The camera acquired the images at approximately 12:27 Local Solar Time, or around 8:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time on April 28, 2004. On that sol, Opportunity sat about 75 meters (246 feet) away from the rim of "Endurance Crater."

See PIA05849 for 3-D view and PIA05851 for right eye view of this left eye cylindrical-perspective projection.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Cornell

Image Addition Date:
2004-05-03