This panorama is the view NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity gained from the top of the “Cape Tribulation” segment of the rim of Endeavour Crater. [Click on the panorama to open a larger version in a new browser tab; full-resolution images are available at the text link.]
The rover reached this point three weeks before the 11th anniversary of its January 2004 landing on Mars. The component images were taken with Opportunity’s panoramic camera (Pancam) during the week after the rover’s arrival at the summit on Jan. 6, 2015, the 3,894th Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s work on Mars.
This location is the highest elevation Opportunity has reached since departing the Victoria Crater area in 2008 on a three-year, down-slope journey to Endeavour Crater. Endeavour spans about 14 miles (22 kilometers) in diameter, with its interior and rim laid out in this 245-degree panorama centered toward east-northeast. Rover tracks imprinted during the rover’s approach to the site appear on the left. The far horizon in the right half of the scene includes portions of the rim of a crater farther south, Iazu Crater… [More at link]