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PIA16121: Outcrop Beckoning Opportunity, Sol 3057

The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity plans to investigate rocks in this area. Both the dark fins and the paler outcrop beyond them hold potential targets for studying with instruments on the rover.

Target Name:	Mars
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Spacecraft:	Opportunity
Instrument:	Navigation Camera
Product Size:	1024 x 1024 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA16121.tif (1.05 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA16121.jpg (218.8 kB)

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The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity plans to investigate rocks in this area photographed by the rover's navigation camera during the 3,057th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's work on Mars (Aug. 23, 2012). Both the dark fins and the paler outcrop beyond them hold potential targets for studying with instruments on the rover.

Orbital investigation of the area has identified a possibility of clay minerals in this area of the Cape York segment of the western rim of Endeavour Crater.

This view is toward the west. A portion of the rover's solar array is in the foreground. Winds cleaned some of the accumulated dust from the array in June and July 2012.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2012-09-07