Opportunity: Jean-Baptiste La Jeunesse

1P521178899EFFCQWRP2387L5M1_L4L5L5L5L6Sol 4427, July 7, 2016. The Mesa (or the Stump) has acquired a new, more permanent name that continues the pattern of commemorating members of the Corps of Discovery led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, (1804-1806). The person is Jean-Baptiste La Jeunesse, who was a boatman hired on contract for the expedition.

Opportunity is surveying the outcrop and its surroundings using the Pancam; the false-color image here (by Holger Isenberg) enlarges when clicked.

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

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