PIA05224: Found You!


Found You!

Caption:

This map of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's new neighborhood at Meridiani Planum, Mars, demonstrates how engineers honed in on the location of the rover. The larger blue ellipse shows the projected landing area just before arriving at Mars. The black ellipse denotes the first approximation of the rover's location after landing based on radio signals received by NASA's Deep Space Network during entry, descent and landing. The white cross points to the rover's precise location based on radio signals sent from the surface both directly to Earth through the Deep Space Network and through NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target Mars
System
Target Type Planet
Mission 2001 Mars Odyssey Deep Space Network (DSN), Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Instrument Host Mars Odyssey Opportunity (MER-B)
Host Type Orbiter Rover
Instrument
Detector
Extra Keywords Color, Map, Radio
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2004-02-09
Date in Caption
Image Credit NASA/JPL/MSSS/ASU
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05224
Identifier PIA05224