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PIA07406: Exterior of Opportunity Heat Shield, Sol 344

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took a detailed look at what was once the exterior of its heat shield. Hitting the martian surface inverted the heat shield, making it difficult to photograph the outside.

Target Name:	Mars
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Spacecraft:	Opportunity
Instrument:	Panoramic Camera
Product Size:	1024 x 1024 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	Cornell University
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA07406.tif (2.912 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA07406.jpg (180.6 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took a detailed look at what was once the exterior of its heat shield. Hitting the martian surface inverted the heat shield, making it difficult to photograph the outside where evidence of any atmospheric effects may be found.

Engineers sought this image to help determine how the heat shield weathered the intense frictional heat created as it passed through the martian atmosphere.

This is an approximately true-color rendering of the scene acquired around 12:47 p.m. local solar time on Opportunity's sol 344 (Jan. 11, 2005) using panoramic camera filters at wavelengths of 750, 530, and 430 nanometers.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL/Cornell

Image Addition Date:

2005-03-01