PIA06868: 'Endurance' Untouched (polar)


‘Endurance’ Untouched (polar)

Caption:

This navigation camera mosaic, created from images taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on sols 115 and 116 (May 21 and 22, 2004) provides a dramatic view of "Endurance Crater." The rover engineering team carefully plotted the safest path into the football field-sized crater, eventually easing the rover down the slopes around sol 130 (June 12, 2004). To the upper left of the crater sits the rover's protective heatshield, which sheltered Opportunity as it passed through the martian atmosphere. The 360-degree view is presented in a polar projection, with geometric and radiometric seam correction.

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target Mars
System
Target Type Planet
Mission Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Instrument Host Opportunity (MER-B)
Host Type Rover
Instrument Navigation Camera (Navcam)
Detector
Extra Keywords Atmosphere, Crater, Grayscale
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2004-09-16
Date in Caption 2004-06-12
Image Credit NASA/JPL
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06868
Identifier PIA06868