Opportunity: Southwest Ridge in false color

4571-pancamSol 4571, December 2, 2016. The Pancam shot a sequence of filtered frames looking toward the southeast. The second-left filtered frame was sent back to Earth missing one filtered image and another is incomplete, hence its odd coloration and appearance. (False-color reconstructions by Holger Isenberg.)

The outcrops at the right edge of the composite image belong to a feature dubbed Southwest Ridge. Given the steep slopes to the left, rover drivers plan to steer Opportunity around the ridge on its uphill side toward the right. Click the image (3.2 MB) to enlarge it.

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

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