PIA06868: 'Endurance' Untouched (polar)
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Navigation Camera
 Product Size:  4153 x 4153 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA06868.tif (8.791 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA06868.jpg (1.407 MB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This navigation camera mosaic, created from images taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on sols 115 and 116 (May 21 and 22, 2004) provides a dramatic view of "Endurance Crater." The rover engineering team carefully plotted the safest path into the football field-sized crater, eventually easing the rover down the slopes around sol 130 (June 12, 2004). To the upper left of the crater sits the rover's protective heatshield, which sheltered Opportunity as it passed through the martian atmosphere. The 360-degree view is presented in a polar projection, with geometric and radiometric seam correction.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
2004-09-16