Sol 4108, August 15, 2015. The northwest wall of Marathon Valley has intriguing features and textures, but these are hard to image because they are nearly always in shadow. The Pancam managed to get a series of multi-band images along the outcrop by shooting in the morning. Mission scientists are hoping to study the area’s varied mineralogy by examining minute color differences. This false-color composite is by D. Savransky and J. Bell/JPL/NASA/Cornell/ASU; click to enlarge.
Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, a location map. and atmospheric opacity, known as tau.