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PIA11743: View from Southwest of Victoria Crater
This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity gives a view to the northeast from the rover's position on Oct. 22, 2008. Multiple rover tracks are seen on Victoria Crater.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Navigation Camera 
 Product Size:  2368 x 870 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA11743.tif (2.063 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA11743.jpg (205.1 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This mosaic of frames from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity gives a view to the northeast from the rover's position on its 1,687th Martian day, or sol (Oct. 22, 2008).

By that date, Opportunity had driven southwestward from Victoria Crater, beginning a long trek toward a larger crater, Endeavour.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2009-01-05