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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-27 Sol (our sun) Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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The sun descends to the Martian horizon and sets in this image from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. A movie is available at the Photojournal.
PIA13736:
Sunset Watched by Opportunity, November 2010 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-17 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This map shows the path that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity followed from the 1,813th Martian day, or sol, to Sol 2450 (Dec. 15, 2010) when Opportunity approached a crater informally named 'Santa Maria.'
PIA13731:
Opportunity Traverse Map, Sol 2450
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-17 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This map shows the path that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit followed from the 743rd Martian day (Feb. 4, 2009), or sol, to Sol 2471 (Dec. 15, 2010). Spirit has been at a sand-trap location called 'Troy' since April 2009.
PIA13730:
Spirit Traverse Map, Sol 2471
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-16 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Rising highest above the horizon in the right half of the image, captured by NASA's Mars Exporation Rover, is a portion of the western rim of Endeavour Crater including a ridge informally named 'Cape Tribulation.'
PIA13709:
Super-Resolution View of Cape Tribulation, Sol 2298
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-16 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to record this view of Santa Maria crater at the end of a drive, bringing it to the western edge of this crater.
PIA13707:
Opportunity's View of Santa Maria Crater, Sol 2450
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-16 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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On Nov. 18, 2010, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took this true-color image showing portions of the rim of Endeavour Crater on Mars.
PIA13669:
Rim of Endeavour on Opportunity's Horizon, Sol 2424
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-16 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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On Nov. 18, 2010, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took this false-color image showing portions of the rim of Endeavour Crater on Mars.
PIA13668:
Rim of Endeavour on Opportunity's Horizon, Sol 2424 (False Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-16 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its panoramic camera to record this eastward horizon view. A portion of Endeavour Crater's eastern rim, in the distance, is visible over the Meridiani plain.
PIA13667:
East Rim of Endeavour Crater in Opportunity's View, Sol 2407
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-16 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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On Oct. 31, 2010, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity tooke this false-color image showing a portion of Endeavour Crater's eastern rim.
PIA13666:
East Rim of Endeavour Crater in Opportunity's View, Sol 2407 (False Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-10 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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The white line on this map shows where NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity has driven from the place where it landed in January 2004 -- inside Eagle Crater, at the upper left end of the track -- to where it reached on the 2,442nd Martian day, or sol.
PIA13598:
Opportunity's Martian Traverse Through Sol 2442
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-18 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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'Yankee Clipper' crater on Mars carries the name of the command and service module of NASA's 1969 Apollo 12 mission to the moon. NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this stereo view on Nov. 4, 2010. 3D glasses are necessary.
PIA13597:
'Yankee Clipper' Crater on Mars (Stereo)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-18 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic is a view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity of 'Yankee Clipper' crater which carries the name of the command and service module of NASA's 1969 Apollo 12 mission to the moon.
PIA13596:
'Yankee Clipper' Crater on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-18 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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'Intrepid' crater on Mars carries the name of the lunar module of NASA's Apollo 12 mission, which landed on Earth's moon Nov. 19, 1969. NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this stereo view on Nov. 11, 2010. 3D glasses are necessary.
PIA13595:
'Intrepid' Crater on Mars (Stereo)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-18 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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On Nov. 10, 2010, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took this false-color image showing 'Intrepid Crater on Mars.
PIA13594:
'Intrepid' Crater on Mars (False Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-18 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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On Nov. 10, 2010, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took this true-color image showing 'Intrepid Crater on Mars.
PIA13593:
'Intrepid' Crater on Mars (Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-12 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This view of 'Intrepid' crater, about 20 meters (66 feet) in diameter, is a mosaic of images taken by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The view spans 180 degrees and is centered toward the east.
PIA13592:
'Intrepid' Crater on Opportunity's Martian Trek
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-12 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic of images from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows terrain that includes light-toned bedrock and darker ripples of wind-blown sand. Portions of Endeavour Crater's rim are visible in the horizon of this scene.
PIA13586:
Opportunity's Eastward View After Sol 2401 Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-12 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic of images from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows surroundings of the rover's location following an 122.2-meter (401-foot) drive on Oct. 25, 2010. 3D glasses are necessary.
PIA13587:
Opportunity's Eastward View After Sol 2401 Drive (Stereo)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-12 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic of images from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows surroundings of the rover's location. The terrain includes light-toned bedrock and darker ripples of wind-blown sand.
PIA13588:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2393 Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-12 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic of images from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows surroundings of the rover's location following an 100.7-meter (330-foot) drive on Oct. 17, 2010. 3D glasses are necessary.
PIA13589:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2393 Drive (Stereo)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-12 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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In this polar projection image taken on Oct. 17, 2009, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows terrain which includes light-toned bedrock and darker ripples of wind-blown sand.
PIA13590:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2393 Drive (Polar)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-12 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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In this vertical projection image taken on Oct. 17, 2009, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows terrain which includes light-toned bedrock and darker ripples of wind-blown sand.
PIA13591:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2393 Drive (Vertical)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-28 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic of images shows the soil in front of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit after a series of short backward drives during attempts to extricate the rover from a sand trap in January and early February 2010.
PIA13543:
Soil Disturbed by Spirit Drives Before Fourth Martian Winter (False Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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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.
PIA13492:
Opportunity's Eastward View After Sol 2382 Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This stereo mosaic of images from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows surroundings of the rover's location following an 93.3-meter (306-foot) drive east-northeastward on Oct. 6, 2010. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA13491:
Opportunity's Eastward View After Sol 2382 Drive (Stereo)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-05 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found and examined this meteorite. The science team used two tools on Opportunity's arm, the microscopic imager and the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer, to inspect the rock's texture and composition.
PIA13419:
Opportunity's Close-up of a Meteorite: 'Oileán Ruaidh' (True Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-05 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found this image of a meteorite. The science team used two tools on Opportunity's arm, the microscopic imager and the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer, to inspect the rock's texture and composition.
PIA13418:
Opportunity's Close-up of a Meteorite: 'Oileán Ruaidh' (False Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-29 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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An iron meteorite is the latest quarry for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Shown here is the left-eye view of a stereo pair of images. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA13417:
Opportunity's Close-up of 'Oileán Ruaidh' (Stereo)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-29 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows surroundings of the rover's location following a drive on Sept. 16, 2010. The terrain includes light-toned bedrock and darker ripples of wind-blown sand.
PIA13416:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2363 Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-29 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This stereo mosaic of images from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows surroundings of the rover's location following an 81-meter (266-foot) drive east-northeastward on Sept. 16, 2010. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA13415:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2363 Drive (Stereo)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-29 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic of images from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows surroundings of the rover's location on Sept. 16, 2010. The terrain includes light-toned bedrock and darker ripples of wind-blown sand.
PIA13414:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2363 Drive (Polar)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-29 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic of images from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows surroundings of the rover's location on Sept. 16, 2010. The terrain includes light-toned bedrock and darker ripples of wind-blown sand.
PIA13413:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2363 Drive (Vertical)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-21 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its panoramic camera to capture this view of a dark rock the size of a toaster that may be an iron meteorite. Part of the rim of Endurance Crater is on the horizon.
PIA13395:
Opportunity Heading for Possible Meteorite
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-09 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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During a long drive on Labor Day, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reached the estimated halfway point of its journey from Victoria Crater to Endeavour Crater.
PIA13375:
View from Halfway Through Multi-Year Trek
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This panorama taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity includes an outcrop informally called 'Cambridge Bay.' Opportunity examined this outcrop in August 2010.
PIA13372:
'Cambridge Bay' Outcrop Examined by Opportunity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This stereo panorama taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity includes an outcrop informally called 'Cambridge Bay.' 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA13371:
'Cambridge Bay' Outcrop Examined by Opportunity (Stereo)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-28 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This is the first dust devil that NASA's rover Opportunity has observed in the rover's six and a half years on Mars. This image has been carefully calibrated and the contrast stretched to make the dust devil easier to see against the Martian sky.
PIA13305:
First Dust Devil Seen by Opportunity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-29 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image from NASA's rover Opportunity shows mostly a portion of Endeavour's western rim (left); a paler-looking terrain on the horizon beyond Endeavour (right) is part of a thick deposit of material ejected by the impact that excavated Iazu Crater.
PIA13197:
Super-Resolution View of Endeavour Rim, Sol 2239
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-29 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic of images of the region around NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the relative locations of several craters, including Endeavour, in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars.
PIA13196:
Opportunity Amid Mars Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this full 360-degree view of the rover's surroundings after a drive on the 2,220th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's mission on Mars (April 22, 2010).
PIA13222:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2220 Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity combined images into this stereo, 360-degree view on April 22, 2010. This site is about 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) south-southwest of Victoria Crater. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA13221:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2220 Drive (Stereo)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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In this polar projection image taken on April 22, 2009, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows wind-formed ripples of dark sand make up much of the terrain surrounding its position. Patches of outcrop are visible to the south.
PIA13220:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2220 Drive (Polar)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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In this vertical projection image taken on April 22, 2009, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows wind-formed ripples of dark sand make up much of the terrain surrounding its position. Patches of outcrop are visible to the south.
PIA13219:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2220 Drive (Vertical)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-03 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Lengthy detective work from data collected by NASA's rover Spirit confirmed that an outcrop called 'Comanche' contains a mineral indicating that a past environment was wet and non-acidic, possibly favorable to life.
PIA13175:
Carbonate-Containing Martian Rocks, False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's rover Opportunity captured this image of the tracks the rover left on a drive from one energy-favorable position on the northern end of a sand ripple to another. The rover team calls this hopping from lily pad to lily pad.
PIA13147:
Opportunity Looks Back After Hop to a New Pad
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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While humans' lives unfolded on Earth, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity paused in its southward trek and captured this photomosaic in approximate true color.
PIA13104:
Two Worlds, One Sun
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-03 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image shows NASA's Opportunity's climb out of Victoria crater. It is the first frame of a movie that spans three days when the rover exited the crater at the alcove called 'Duck Bay' leaving two sets of wheel tracks.
PIA13088:
Opportunity's Wheel Tracks at Victoria Crater Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image uses a view from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity to show context for a horizon shot by the rover's narrower-angle panoramic camera of the rim of Endeavour crater.
PIA13084:
Endeavour on the Horizon (Context View)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its panoramic camera (Pancam) to capture this view approximately true-color view of the rim of Endeavour crater, the rover's destination in a multi-year traverse along the sandy Martian landscape.
PIA13081:
Endeavour on the Horizon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its panoramic camera (Pancam) to capture this false-color view of the rim of Endeavour crater, the rover's destination in a multi-year traverse along the sandy Martian landscape.
PIA13080:
Endeavour on the Horizon (False Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover used its panoramic camera to record this view of the rim of a crater about 65 kilometers (40 miles) in the distance, on the southwestern horizon. This crater, Bopolu, is about 19 kilometers (12 miles) in diameter.
PIA12980:
Rim of Bopolu Crater Far to the Southwest of Opportunity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image from the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a rock called 'Chocolate Hills,' which the rover found and examined at the edge of a young crater called 'Concepción.'
PIA12972:
Rock with Odd Coating Beside a Young Martian Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This false color image from the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a rock called 'Chocolate Hills,' which the rover found and examined at the edge of a young crater called 'Concepción.'
PIA12971:
Rock with Odd Coating Beside a Young Martian Crater, False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image from the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows details of the coating on a rock called 'Chocolate Hills,' which the rover found and examined at the edge of a young crater called 'Concepción.'
PIA12970:
Coating on Rock Beside a Young Martian Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-23 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This true-color image is the result of the first observation of a target selected autonomously by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity using newly developed and uploaded software named Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science, or AEGIS.
PIA12975:
First Image from a Mars Rover Choosing a Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-23 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image is the result of the first observation of a target selected autonomously by NASA's Opportunity using newly developed and uploaded software called AEGIS. The false color makes some differences between materials easier to see.
PIA12974:
First Image from a Mars Rover Choosing a Target, False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-23 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Opportunity used newly developed and uploaded software called AEGIS, to analyze images to identify features that best matched criteria for selecting an observation target; the criteria in this image -- rocks that are larger and darker than others.
PIA12973:
Image Analyzed by Mars Rover for Selection of Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-16 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This false-color image, taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's rover Opportunity, shows the rock 'Chocolate Hills,' perched on the rim of the 10-meter (33-foot) wide 'Concepcion' crater. This rock has a thick, dark-colored coating resembling chocolate.
PIA12452:
Chocolate Hills Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-12 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit recorded this fisheye view after completing a drive during on Mars on Feb. 8, 2010. The drive left Spirit in the position where the rover will stay parked during the upcoming Mars southern-hemisphere winter.
PIA12457:
Spirit's Rear View After Parking for Fourth Winter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-26 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This NASA Spirit image view is toward the north, looking down at Spirit's front wheels. It is one of a series of wide-angle views shown one after the other. Go to the Photojournal to view the animation.
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Front Camera View of Backward Drive, Sols 2145-2154 Animation Icon
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This NASA Spirit image view is toward the south, looking down at Spirit's rear wheels. It is one of a series of wide-angle views shown one after the other. Go to the Photojournal to view the animation.
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Rear Camera View of Backward Drive, Sols 2145-2154 Animation Icon
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Perched on a rippled Martian plain, a dark rock not much bigger than a basketball was the target of interest for NASA's Opportunity during the past two months; Opportunity's rock abrasion tool brushed dust out of the circular area.
PIA12434:
Sample from Deep in Martian Crust: 'Marquette Island'
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This image is one of two frames showing NASA's Spirit driving backward as next technique for attempting to extricate the rover from the sand trap where it is embedded. Go to the Photojournal for the animation.
PIA12497:
Movement During Backward Drive, Sols 2147 Animation Icon
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This frame (taken from a three-frame animation) aids evaluation of performance of the right-front wheel on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during a drive on the rover's 2,117th Martian day, or sol (Dec. 16, 2009).
PIA12482:
Rotations by Spirit's Right-Front Wheel, Sol 2117 Animation Icon
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Diagnostic tests were run on the right-rear wheel and right-front wheel on NASA's Spirit. The right-rear wheel continued to show no motion in the latest tests and exhibited very high resistance in the motor winding.
PIA12398:
Slight Movement by Spirit's Right-Front Wheel, Sol 2113 Animation Icon
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Little Movement in Spirit's Sol 2099 Drive
PIA12477:
Little Movement in Spirit's Sol 2099 Drive Animation Icon
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used the wire brush of its rock abrasion tool to scour dust from a circular target area on a rock called 'Marquette Island.'
PIA12475:
Examining 'Marquette Island'
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took this picture of a rock informally named 'Marquette Island' as the rover was approaching the rock for investigations that have suggested the rock is a stony meteorite.
PIA12474:
Approaching 'Marquette Island'
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This view from the navigation camera near the top of the mast on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the tracks left by the rover as it drove southward and backward, dragging its inoperable right-front wheel.
PIA12473:
Tracks in, Path out?
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Movement from Spirit's Third Extrication Drive
PIA12378:
Movement from Spirit's Third Extrication Drive Animation Icon
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This image is one of two images which documents very slight forward movement of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during a drive on the rover's 2,090th Martian day, or sol (Nov. 19, 2009).
PIA12471:
Movement from Spirit's Second Extrication Drive Animation Icon
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its rear hazard avoidance camera to take this view toward the south during the 1,899th Martian day, or sol, of Spirit's mission on Mars (May 6, 2009).
PIA12357:
View in Travel Direction, Sol 1870, with 'Rock Garden'
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its rear hazard avoidance camera to take this view toward the south during the 1,899th Martian day, or sol, of Spirit's mission on Mars (May 6, 2009).
PIA12356:
Rear View Southward from 'Troy'
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Wheel slippage during attempts to extricate NASA's Mars Rover Spirit from a patch of soft ground during the preceding two weeks had partially buried the wheels by the 1,899th Martian day, or sol, of the Spirit's mission on Mars (May 6, 2009).
PIA12355:
Spirit's Wheels Digging into Soft Ground, Sol 1899
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit looks toward the northwest and shows some of the targets examined by Spirit after the rover became embedded at this site.
PIA12354:
Site of Intense Investigation by Spirit
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A depression called 'Scamander Crater,' dominates the terrain near NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit in this map that emphasizes local topography by removing the regional tilt to the northwest.
PIA12353:
Adjusted Local Topography Map of Spirit's Surroundings
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Rover-team members at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., check slight movements by a test rover during tests simulating the challenge of getting NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit out of a sand trap on Mars.
PIA12352:
Sandbox Testing to Prepare for Driving Spirit
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A screen shot from software used by the Mars Exploration Rover team for assessing movements by Spirit and Opportunity illustrates the degree to which Spirit's wheels have become embedded in soft material at the location called 'Troy.'
PIA12337:
Computer Reconstruction of Spirit's Predicament
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit recorded this forward view of its arm and surroundings; bright soil in the left half of the image is loose, fluffy material churned by the rover's left-front wheel as Spirit.
PIA12312:
Spirit's Robotic Stretch on Sol 2052
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The total distance driven on Mars by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover, 34.36 kilometers by early December 2011, is approaching the record total for off-Earth driving, held by the robotic Lunokhod 2 rover operated on Earth's moon by the Soviet Union in 1973.
PIA14860:
Off-Earth Driving Champs (in Kilometers)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found a rock that apparently is another meteorite, less than three weeks after driving away from a larger meteorite that the rover examined for six weeks.
PIA12254:
Opportunity Finds Another Meteorite
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Tests of possible maneuvers for use by NASA's rover Spirit on Mars include use of this lightweight test rover at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
PIA12204:
Checking Tilt of Lightweight Test Rover
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This full-circle,stereo view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the terrain surrounding the location called 'Troy,' where Spirit became embedded in soft soil during the spring of 2009.
PIA12203:
'Calypso' Panorama of Spirit's View from 'Troy'
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This full-circle view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the terrain surrounding the location called 'Troy,' where Spirit became embedded in soft soil during the spring of 2009. 3D glasses are necessary.
PIA12202:
'Calypso' Panorama of Spirit's View from 'Troy' (Stereo)
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This full-circle, false color view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the terrain surrounding the location called 'Troy,' where Spirit became embedded in soft soil during the spring of 2009.
PIA12201:
'Calypso' Panorama of Spirit's View from 'Troy' (False Color)
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This mosaic image was taken with the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit to get a look underneath the rover.
PIA12182:
Spirit's View of Own Underbelly, Sol 1990
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This stereo view combines a pair of images taken two months apart by the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA12181:
Spirit's View of Own Underbelly, (Stereo from Two Sols)
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This stereo view combines a pair of images taken by the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during the 1,925th Martian day (sol) of Spirit's mission on Mars (June 2, 2009). 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA12180:
Spirit's View of Own Underbelly, (Sol 1925 Stereo)
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Testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in August 2009 is assessing possible maneuvers that the Mars rover Spirit might use for escaping from a patch of soft soil where it is embedded at a Martian site called 'Troy.'
PIA12183:
Second Test Rover Added for 'Free Spirit' Tests
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A test setup at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory enables experiments with maneuvers being considered for use by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit to get Spirit out of soft soil where it has become embedded.
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Laying the Groundwork for a Rover Test
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This view of a rock called 'Block Island,' the largest meteorite yet found on Mars, comes from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
PIA12193:
'Block Island' Meteorite on Mars, Sol 1961 (False Color)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its microscopic imager to get this view of the surface of a rock called 'Block Island' during the 1,963rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (Aug. 1, 2009).
PIA12191:
Magnified Look at a Meteorite on Mars
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Composition measurements by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity confirm that this rock on the Martian surface is an iron-nickel meteorite. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA12165:
'Block Island' Meteorite on Mars, Sol 1961 (Stereo)
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This is a picture of 'Block Island' an odd-shaped, dark rock, which may be a meteorite.
PIA12161:
Block Island Close-up
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This image of 'Block Island' was taken on July 28, 2009, with the front hazard-identification camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
PIA12160:
Block Island in Sight
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover team members continued longer-duration test runs this week, driving the test rover forward and uphill in a crab-like position. These long-duration drives will continue through the end of next week.
PIA12159:
Uphill Climb
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Rover team members at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., on July 24, 2009, discuss the next step in preparing for a new phase in testing of possible moves for getting NASA's Mars rover Spirit out of a sandtrap on Mars.
PIA12156:
Sandbox Tracks from Rover Testing
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this 360-degree cylindrical view of the rover's surroundings on the 1,950th Martian day, or sol, of its surface mission (July 19, 2009).
PIA12155:
Opportunity's Surroundings on Sol 1950
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this 360-degree stereo view of the rover's surroundings on July 19, 2009. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA12154:
Opportunity's Surroundings on Sol 1950 (Stereo)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this 360-degree vertical view of the rover's surroundings on the 1,950th Martian day, or sol, of its surface mission (July 19, 2009).
PIA12153:
Opportunity's Surroundings on Sol 1950 (Vertical)
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