Press Release Images: Opportunity

28-Jan-2004 Space Shuttle Challenger Crew Memorialized on Mars Full Press Release Challenger Memorial Station, Meridiani Planum, Mars A composite image reveals the local region surrounding the Challenger Memorial Station. The image is actually an amalgamation of a Mars Global Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Camera image and the third and final picture taken by Opportunity's DIMES camera ( Descent Image Motion Estimation System) during descent. The location of the site is a 20-meter (65.6 foot) wide, 2-meter (6.6 foot) deep crater somewhere in this composite image. The final crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger was lost when the shuttle suffered an in-flight breakup during launch on Jan. 28, 1986. Image credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS Browse Image | Medium Image (202 kB) | Large (1.6 MB) The Challenger crew. Browse Image (39 kB)

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