Sol 4712, April 26, 2017. Orion Crater is an old, rather degraded impact crater about 25 meters (82 feet) wide. Opportunity drove along its western edge on the way toward Perservence Valley. The crater appears in the Navcam composite above as a broad, shallow depression on the right side of the image. Below, a four-frame Pancam false-color composite (by Holger Isenberg) shows that the crater’s interior is filled with relatively uniform material, while a ripple of brighter sand lies along the crater’s muted rim. Click either image to enlarge it.
Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, a location map, and atmospheric opacity, known as tau.
