PIA13758: View of 'Santa Maria' Crater from Western Rim, Sol 2454 (Polar)
This 360-degree mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the view from the western rim of 'Santa Maria' crater is presented as a polar projection, with north at the top.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Navigation Camera 
 Product Size:  4187 x 4187 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA13758.tif (17.56 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA13758.jpg (1.44 MB)  

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This 360-degree mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the view from the western rim of "Santa Maria" crater on the 2,454th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's work on Mars (Dec. 19, 2010).

The crater is about 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter. This 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:
2011-01-13