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PIA13492: Opportunity's Eastward View After Sol 2382 Drive
This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a terrain that 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:  2719 x 1145 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA13492.tif (3.117 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA13492.jpg (308.4 kB)  

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This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a 90-degree view centered toward the east following a 93.3-meter (306-foot) drive east-northeastward during the 2,382nd Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's mission on Mars (Oct. 6, 2010).

The camera took the component images for this mosaic on Sol 2382 after the drive. The terrain includes light-toned bedrock and darker ripples of wind-blown sand. On the following sol, Opportunity drove an additional 94.3 meters (309 feet) toward its long-term destination: the rim of Endeavour Crater. Portions of the rim, still more than 8 kilometers (5 miles) away, are visible in the horizon of this scene. This view is presented as a cylindrical projection.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2010-10-19