Opportunity: Sitting pretty in a fracture

3846-trough1Sol 3846, November 18, 2014. The rover is parked in a fracture trough that extends roughly east-west. This Navcam two-frame view (above) looks uphill to the east, with the rim crest on the horizon. Note the raised edges of the trough.

1P469621469ESFCJL1P2509L5M1annOpportunity’s drive brought it to a halt at a place where a small mineral vein (arrow, right) lies in the trough, precisely placed by good fortune where the instrument arm can go to work on it. Pancam image.

Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, a location map. and atmospheric opacity, known as tau.

 

This entry was posted in Reports and tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

Comments are closed.