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Martian surface seen by the rover Opportunity. 05/2005

by

Nasa/JPL/Novapix

Reference

a-mar08-50150

Date

2006-10-19

Detail of a martian panorama acquired by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on the plains of Meridiani during the period from the rover's 456th to 464th sols on Mars (May 6 to May 14, 2005). Opportunity was about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) south of "Endurance Crater" at a place known informally as "Purgatory Dune."