PIA13414: Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2363 Drive (Polar)
This mosaic of images from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows surroundings of the rover's location on Sept. 16, 2010. The terrain includes light-toned bedrock and darker ripples of wind-blown sand.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Navigation Camera 
 Product Size:  4127 x 4127 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA13414.tif (17.07 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA13414.jpg (1.483 MB)  

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This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows surroundings of the rover's location following an 81-meter (266-foot) drive during the 2,363rd Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's mission on Mars (Sept. 16, 2010).

The camera took the component images for this 360-degree panorama during sols 2363 to 2365. The terrain includes light-toned bedrock and darker ripples of wind-blown sand. For scale, the distance between the parallel wheel tracks in the right half of the image is about 1 meter (about 40 inches).

This view is presented as a polar projection.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2010-09-29