PIA13752: 'Santa Maria' Crater in 360-Degree View, Sol 2451 (Polar)
A football-field-size crater, informally named 'Santa Maria,' dominates the scene in this polar projection from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Navigation Camera 
 Product Size:  4443 x 4443 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA13752.tif (19.78 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA13752.jpg (1.462 MB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Originally released December 23, 2010

A football-field-size crater, informally named "Santa Maria," dominates the scene in this 360-degree, stereo view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.

Following a 25-meter (82-foot) drive on the 2,451st Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (Dec. 16, 2010), Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the frames combined into this mosaic. The view is presented as a polar projection, with north at the top.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover Project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2011-01-03