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Mars rover sees distant crater rim
Sunday, 02 May 2010 22:59
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Spaceflight - Mars-missions

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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured a new view of the rim of Endeavour crater, the rover's destination in a multi-year traverse along the sandy Martian landscape.

A portion of the rim about 13 kilometers  away appears on the horizon at the left edge of the image, along with the rim of an even more distant crater, Iazu, on the right.

Endeavour is 21 kilometers  in diameter, about 25 times wider than Victoria crater, the last major crater Opportunity visited.

Opportunity began a marathon from Victoria to the Endeavour-crater in September 2008, after spending two years exploring Victoria.

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Crop of the upper left corner of the image, showing the crater-rim:


Source: JPL