PIA16558: Opportunity's Surroundings on Sol 3105, on 'Matijevic Hill'
This full-circle, panorama shows the terrain around the NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on part of a relatively flat, light-toned outcrop called 'Whitewater Lake.' The basin of Endeavour Crater is in the left half of the image.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Navigation Camera 
 Product Size:  7688 x 1610 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA16558.tif (12.39 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA16558.jpg (1.516 MB)  

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This full-circle panorama shows the terrain around the NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity during the 3,105th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (Oct. 18, 2012). It was assembled from images taken by the rover's navigation camera. South is at the center. North is on both ends.

Opportunity had driven about 61 feet (18.5 meters) westward earlier on Sol 3105 to reach this location, which is on the northern portion of "Matijevic Hill" on the "Cape York" segment of the western rim of Endeavour Crater. The wheel tracks created by the drive are visible. For scale, the distance between the two parallel tracks is about 3.3 feet (1 meter).

The basin of Endeavour Crater is in the left half of the image. Opportunity has been working on the western rim of Endeavour since mid-2011.

The panorama is presented as a cylindrical projection.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2012-12-19