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PIA06264: Inside Looking Up
This view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's rear hazard-avoidance camera looks back up toward the 'Endurance Crater' rim from the deepest point of a dip into the crater on June 9, 2004.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Hazcam 
 Product Size:  1024 x 1024 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA06264.tif (933.5 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA06264.jpg (96.14 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This view from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's rear hazard-avoidance camera looks back up toward the "Endurance Crater" rim from the deepest point of a dip into the crater during the rover's 134th martian day, or sol, on June 9, 2004. In this image, the rover is pitched forward about 18 degrees and the rear wheels are about 30 centimeters (about 12 inches) below the rim of the crater. The success of this engineering test of the slope and rock surface led rover planners to make plans to proceed into the crater for further scientific investigation.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
2004-06-15