PIA11387: View from West of Victoria Crater, Sol 1664 (Polar)


View from West of Victoria Crater, Sol 1664 (Polar)

Caption:

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this full-circle view of the rover's surroundings on the 1,664th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's surface mission (September 28, 2008). Opportunity had driven 152.8 meters (501 feet) southward on the preceding sol, reaching this location on the west side of Victoria Crater. Maps of the traverse to this point are at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/tm-opportunity/opportunity-sol1664.html .

Rover tracks from the Sol 1663 drive extend northward in the image. For scale, the two parallel tracks are about 1 meter (39 inches) apart. To the right of center, Victoria Crater is visible from the north-northeast to the east-southeast.

This view is presented as a polar projection with geometric 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 Crater, Grayscale
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2009-01-22
Date in Caption 2008-09-28
Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA11387
Identifier PIA11387