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Tag Archives: Endeavour Crater
Opportunity: La Joya, take 2
Sol 5093, May 23, 2018. After taking one close-up on the La Joya target rock, the Microscopic Imager shifted position for another close-up of the rock (above), which partly overlaps with the first. (Click the image to enlarge it.) A … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, La Joya, La Salinera, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Opportunity: Looking at La Joya
Sol 5091, May 21, 2018. Mission scientists commanded the rover to use its Microscopic Imager to shoot a 2×3 composite image of part of the rock dubbed La Joya. In the plans is an additional survey of a different part … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, La Joya, La Salinera, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Opportunity: La Joya and disturbed soil
Sol 5087, May 16, 2018. Opportunity is parked at La Salinera, an exposed outcrop on the edge of Persevereance Valley. Scientists are using the Pancam to take multi-colored images of targets nearby, producing false-color composite images that reveal differences in … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, La Joya, La Salinera, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, soil
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Opportunity: Inde and environs
Sols 5077-78, May 6-7, 2018. With Opportunity parked at the rock target called Inde, the Pancam shot a series of frames, mostly multi-filtered, documenting the outcrop near the rock in better perspective than that shown here. Above shows Inde’s neighbors … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, Inde, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Opportunity: Passage to Inde
Sols 5076-77, May 5-6, 2018. Mission controllers used the rover’s Pancam to shoot five multi-filtered frames to make a false-color composite image of flat-lying tabular rocks at the La Salinera site in Perseverance Valley. Mission control then drove Opportunity about … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, Inde, La Salinera, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Opportunity report, Sol 5072, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
May 4, 2018: Opportunity Studies Mystery Rock, Mission Officials Seek 2019 Extension: Opportunity spent April further exploring the area about halfway down Perseverance Valley, checking out unusual, vesicular or pitted rocks the likes of which she has never seen, while … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Opportunity: False-color Pancam on pitted rocks
Sol 5073, May 2, 2018. With Opportunity parked at La Salinera, mission scientists used the Pancam to shoot a multi-filtered set of images of the pitted rocks next to the rover. (Holger Isenberg reconstructions; false colors vary across the composite … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, La Salinera, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, pitted rock, vesicular rock
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Opportunity: Perseverance Valley at the 2018 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
For the 15th year in a row, Opportunity and the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission drove into the spotlight during an afternoon session at the 49th Lunar & Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), held in The Woodlands, Texas, in March. Known by its acronym, LPSC is where this … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, LPSC 2018, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Opportunity: Allende in closeup
Sol 5072, May 1, 2018. Parked at a pitted rock named Allende, Opportunity put the Microscopic Imager to work making a 2×2 composite view of the target. At right is the Hazcam view to the south with the rover arm … Continue reading
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Tagged Allende, Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, La Salinera, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Opportunity: Aiming at Allende
Sol 5070, April 29, 2018. On the weekend, Opportunity turned to square up to its next target, a rock dubbed Allende (arrow), seen in the Navcam view above. At right is a false-color (Holger Isenberg) Pancam view showing Allende in … Continue reading
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Tagged Allende, Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, La Salinera, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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