Opportunity: Driving up the hill

4587-navcamSol 4587, December 19, 2016. The rover’s Navcam took the composite image above following a 31-meter (102-foot) drive uphill the day before (note Opportunity’s wheel tracks). The view (3.1 MB) looks generally east.

Also on Sol 4587, the Pancam shot a five-frame profile (2.7 MB, below) of a feature on the south-southeast skyline dubbed Mount Jefferson, after a volcano noted and named by the Lewis & Clark expedition. (False color reconstructions by Holger Isenberg.) Both images enlarge when clicked.

Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, a location map, and atmospheric opacity, known as tau.4587-pancamFC

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