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Tag Archives: Solander Point
Opportunity: Sol 3664, May 15, 2014
Pancam looks northeast over the edge of Murray Ridge. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a location map. (Edit: updated to correct the sol.)
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Opportunity: Sol 3679, May 30, 2014
In the distance toward the north-northeast, a small part of the Cape York rim segment pokes into view behind Murray Ridge, in a false-color image created by Holger Isenberg using filtered Pancam images. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape York, Endeavour Crater, Holger Isenberg, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, Murray Ridge, NASA, Opportunity, Pillinger Point, Solander Point
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Opportunity: Sol 3678, May 29, 2014
Navcam images a geological contact, foreground, at Pillinger Point on Murray Ridge. Front Hazcam shows where Opportunity has just been as it drives backward up the ridge. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, … Continue reading
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Opportunity: Sol 3677, May 28, 2014
Driving away from the rim crest at Pillinger Point, Murray Ridge. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a location map.
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Opportunity: Sol 3676, May 28, 2014
Microscopic Imager: Focusing on shiny slick rock — impact melt? — at Pillinger Point on Murray Ridge. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a location map.
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Tagged Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, Murray Ridge, NASA, Opportunity, Pillinger Point, Solander Point
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Opportunity: Sol 3674, May 26, 2014
Brushing and peering closely at the Pillinger Point outcrop on Murray Ridge. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a location map. (For a shortcut to Sol 3674 Hazcam images, click here. For the Microscopic Imager shots, go here.) … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, Murray Ridge, NASA, Opportunity, Pillinger Point, Solander Point
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Opportunity: Sol 3673, May 25, 2014
At Pillinger Point on the edge of Murray Ridge, looking south over clean solar panels. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a location map. (For a shortcut to Sol 3673 Navcam images, click here.)
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, Murray Ridge, NASA, Opportunity, Pillinger Point, Solander Point
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Opportunity: Sol 3671, May 22, 2014
Contact science on the Pillinger Point outcrop, seen by the front right Hazcam. (Wider view here.) Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a location map. (For a shortcut to Sol 3671 Hazcam images, click here.)
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Opportunity: Sol 3669, May 20, 2014
Slabby outcrop at Pillinger Point on the rim crest of Murray Ridge: this is the area of aluminum-hydroxyl clays. The view looks toward the north-northeast over the interior of Endeavour Crater. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a … Continue reading
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Tagged aluminum-hydroxyl clays, clays, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, Murray Ridge, NASA, Opportunity, Solander Point
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Opportunity panorama: Sol 3637
This vista of the Endeavour Crater rim was acquired by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity from the southern end of “Murray Ridge” on the western rim of the crater. It combines several exposures taken by the rover’s panoramic camera (Pancam) … Continue reading
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