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Press Release Images: Opportunity
08-Jun-2004
Mars Rovers Continue Unique Exploration of Mars
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Downward Slope
Downward Slope

This false-color image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity panoramic camera shows a downward view from the rover as it sits at the edge of "Endurance" crater. The gradual, "blueberry"-strewn slope before the rover contains an exposed dark layer of rock that wraps around the upper section of the crater. Scientists suspect that this rock layer will provide clues about Mars' distant past. This mosaic image comprises images taken from 10 rover positions using 750, 530 and 430 nanometer filters, acquired on sol 131 (June 6, 2004).

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The Path into 'Endurance'
The Path into "Endurance"

This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity panoramic camera shows the rover's 6-to-7-meter (20-to-23-foot) drive path into the crater called "Endurance," starting near the target called "Karatepe." The yellow line at the top illustrates the first part of the drive, a 1.2-meter (3.9-foot) movement forward just enough to get all six of the rover's wheels into the crater. The rover will then back up the same distance and examine what the wheels did to the rocks. The following day, it will move forward approximately 3.2 meters (10.5 feet). The drive began on sol 133 (June 8, 2004).

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The Path into 'Endurance'
The Path into "Endurance"

This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity panoramic camera shows the rover's 6-to-7-meter (20-to-23-foot) drive path into the crater called "Endurance," starting near the target called "Karatepe." The yellow line at the top illustrates the second part of the drive, in which the rover drives forward 2.4 meters (7.8 feet) into the crater before backing up to examine the soil and rock it just drove over. The drive began on sol 133 (June 8, 2004).

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The Path into 'Endurance'
The Path into "Endurance"

This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity panoramic camera shows the rover's 6-to-7-meter (20-to-23-foot) drive path into the crater called "Endurance," starting near the target called "Karatepe." The yellow arrow at the top illustrates the last leg of the drive, a forward movement into the crater, illustrated by the blue circle. The drive began on sol 133 (June 8, 2004).

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The Test Drive
The Test Drive

This image taken at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows engineers rehearsing the sol 133 (June 8, 2004) drive into "Endurance" crater by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Engineers and scientists have recreated the martian surface and slope the rover will encounter using a combination of bare and thinly sand-coated rocks, simulated martian "blueberries" and a platform tilted at a 25-degree angle. The results of this test convinced engineers that the rover was capable of driving up and down a straight slope before it attempted the actual drive on Mars.

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