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PIA11387: View from West of Victoria Crater, Sol 1664 (Polar)
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Navigation Camera
 Product Size:  4089 x 4089 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA11387.tif (16.74 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA11387.jpg (1.258 MB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this full-circle view of the rover's surroundings on the 1,664th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's surface mission (September 28, 2008). Opportunity had driven 152.8 meters (501 feet) southward on the preceding sol, reaching this location on the west side of Victoria Crater. Maps of the traverse to this point are at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/tm-opportunity/opportunity-sol1664.html.

Rover tracks from the Sol 1663 drive extend northward in the image. For scale, the two parallel tracks are about 1 meter (39 inches) apart. To the right of center, Victoria Crater is visible from the north-northeast to the east-southeast.

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

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2009-01-22