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PIA11836: West Rim of Endeavour and a Farther Crater's Rim on Horizon
A western portion of Endeavour Crater is visible on the horizon of this image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on March 7, 2009.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Panoramic Camera 
 Product Size:  416 x 187 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Cornell University 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA11836.tif (78.1 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA11836.jpg (5.729 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Annotated image West Rim of Endeavour Crater

In the left half of this view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, a western portion of the rim of Endeavour Crater is visible on the horizon. In the right half, the rim of a smaller crater, farther away, appears faintly on the horizon.

Opportunity's Pancam took this image on March 8, 2009, during the 1,821st Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars. The width of the image covers approximately one degree of the horizon.

The part of Endeavour's rim visible here is about 16 kilometers (10 miles) from where Opportunity was when the image was taken. The rover was at the same location as when its Pancam took images after a drive on Sol 1820. Opportunity remained at that location until a drive on Sol 1823.

The more-distant rim to the right, part of Iazu Crater, is about 38 kilometers (24 miles) away. Iazu is south of Endeavour and about 7 kilometers (4 miles) in diameter.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell

Image Addition Date:
2009-03-18