Opportunity field report: August 15, 2014

Sol 3753 (August 15, 2014) Rover Field Report by Larry Crumpler, MER Science Team & New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science: “Opportunity did the first drives upslope around sol 3745 on its long journey toward the crest of the highest rim segment of Endeavour crater, “Cape Tribulation.” The surface here consists of a smooth regolith streaked with ripples of sand blowing off the plains to the west. There is a long ridge with spectacular rocky outcrops that makes a nice ramp for the first part of the climb… There are some really big rocky outcrops on top of the ridge and we would like to find out what they are. But the slopes of the ridge…” [More at link]