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PIA11849: Opportunity's Surroundings on Sol 1798 (Polar)

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took images combined into this polar half-circle view of Mars' Meridiani Planum region includes dark-toned sand ripples and small exposures of lighter-toned bedrock during March 5, 2009.

Target Name:	Mars
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Spacecraft:	Opportunity
Instrument:	Navigation Camera
Product Size:	4133 x 4133 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA11849.tif (17.11 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA11849.jpg (645.9 kB)

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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 180-degree view of the rover's surroundings during the 1,798th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's surface mission (Feb. 13, 2009). North is on top.

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

The rover had driven 111 meters (364 feet) southward on the preceding sol. Tracks from that drive recede northward in this view. For scale, the distance between the parallel wheel tracks is about 1 meter (about 40 inches).

The terrain in this portion of Mars' Meridiani Planum region includes dark-toned sand ripples and lighter-toned bedrock.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2009-03-23