Opportunity: Scouting an overlook and seeing far

3923-pancam4rSol 3923, February 6, 2015. Opportunity’s Pancam is scouting the terrain ahead, as mission controllers look for a place to view into Marathon Valley and survey its terrain before driving down into it.

The arrow at right points to a faintly visible peak rising above the distant Meridiani plains. See the image below, which also appears to catch a hint of another massif at the right edge of the image. These may be outlying rim segments of Miyamoto or Bopolu Craters. The image above is a four-frame composite (click to load a larger version in a new tab); the image below is a contrast-enhanced crop from a single frame.

1P476456907EFFCLR2P2358R2M1Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, a location map. and atmospheric opacity, known as tau.

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