Exploring Meridiani Planum

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The map is projected here at a scale of 50 centimeters (19.7 inches) per pixel.
[The original image scale is 54.1 centimeters (21.3 inches) per pixel (with 2 x 2 binning); objects on the order of 162 centimeters (63.8 inches) across are resolved.] North is up.

NASA's Opportunity rover has spent 13 years exploring a small region of Meridiani Planum which has a rather ordinary appearance as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

Other portions of Meridiani are much more interesting, with well-exposed layered bedrock eroded into strange patterns.

Background Info:

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

Cataloging Keywords:

Name	Value	Additional Values
Target	Mars
System
Target Type	Planet
Mission	Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)	Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Instrument Host	Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter	Opportunity (MER-B)
Host Type	Orbiter	Rover
Instrument	High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)
Detector
Extra Keywords	Color, Map
Acquisition Date
Release Date	2018-04-30
Date in Caption
Image Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Source	photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22438
Identifier	PIA22438