Opportunity panorama: McClure-Beverlin Escarpment

The boulder-studded ridge in this scene recorded by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is “McClure-Beverlin Escarpment,” informally named for Jack Beverlin and Bill McClure, engineers who on Feb. 14, 1969, risked their lives to save NASA’s second successful Mars mission, Mariner 6, on its launch pad. This view toward the south is a mosaic of images taken by Opportunity’s panoramic camera (Pancam) during the 3,527th Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s work on Mars (Dec. 25, 2013). The rover team plans to use Opportunity during 2014 to investigate rock layers exposed…. [More, including a stereo image, at the link]