PIA11848: Opportunity's Surroundings on Sol 1798 (Vertical)


Opportunity’s Surroundings on Sol 1798 (Vertical)

Caption:

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this 180-degree view of the rover's surroundings during the 1,798th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's surface mission (Feb. 13, 2009). North is on top.

This view is presented as a vertical projection with geometric seam correction.

The rover had driven 111 meters (364 feet) southward on the preceding sol. Tracks from that drive recede northward in this view. For scale, the distance between the parallel wheel tracks is about 1 meter (about 40 inches).

The terrain in this portion of Mars' Meridiani Planum region includes dark-toned sand ripples and lighter-toned bedrock.

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 Grayscale
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2009-03-23
Date in Caption 2009-02-13
Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA11848
Identifier PIA11848