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PIA11739: Opportunity's Surroundings on Sol 1687 (Stereo)
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity combined images into this stereo, 360-degree view of the rover's surroundings on Oct. 22, 2008. Opportunity's position was about 300 meters southwest of Victoria. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Navigation Camera 
 Product Size:  7753 x 2324 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Other  
Information: 		 You will need 3D glasses 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA11739.tif (54.05 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA11739.jpg (1.201 MB)  

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Left-eye view of a color stereo pair for PIA11739
Left-eye view of a color stereo pair for PIA11739
Right-eye view of a stereo pair for PIA11739
Right-eye view of a color stereo pair for PIA11739

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this stereo, 360-degree view of the rover's surroundings on the 1,687th Martian day, or sol, of its surface mission (Oct. 22, 2008). The view appears three-dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses.

Opportunity had driven 133 meters (436 feet) that sol, crossing sand ripples up to about 10 centimeters (4 inches) tall. The tracks visible in the foreground are in the east-northeast direction.

Opportunity's position on Sol 1687 was about 300 meters southwest of Victoria Crater. The rover was beginning a long trek toward a much larger crater, Endeavour, about 12 kilometers (7 miles) to the southeast.

This panorama combines right-eye and left-eye views presented as cylindrical-perspective projections with geometric seam correction.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2009-01-05