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PIA09973: Forty Meters from Entry to Victoria Crater (Polar)

On Aug. 28, 2007, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took this polar projection showing the rover perched at the lip of Victoria Crater on Mars.

Target Name:	Mars
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Spacecraft:	Opportunity
Instrument:	Navigation Camera
Product Size:	4093 x 4093 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA09973.tif (16.77 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA09973.jpg (1.093 MB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera during the rover's 1,278th Martian day, or sol, (Aug. 28, 2007) to take the images combined into this view. The rover was perched at the lip of Victoria Crater, which is about 800 meters (one-half mile) in diameter.

After assessment of possible routes for Opportunity to descend into the crater, the rover team selected a site farther to the right along the rim. That selected entry point lies near the ripple of bright soil visible just outside the crater near the top center of this scene. The driving distance for Opportunity from the Sol 1,278 viewpoint to the selected entry point is about 40 meters (about 130 feet).

This view is presented as a polar projection with geometric seam correction.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2007-09-07