Mars Exploration Rovers 2003:
Opportunity's Color Photographs of Mars
Mars Exploration Rovers main story Opportunity's First Pictures of Mars
other pictures of the bedrock outcropping A panoramic color picture of the outcropping of bedrock near the rover Opportunity.
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Opportunity's first pictures of Mars
NASA JPL's Opportunity pictures galleryColor photo from Opportunity's panoramic camera as the rover sits on its first day inside a crater at Meridiani Planum. The crater interior is the darkest landing site on Mars ever visited by a spacecraft from Earth. The soil looks like a mixture of coarse gray grains and fine reddish grains. The rim of the crater is about 32 feet from the rover. The crater probably is 65 feet in diameter. Numerous rock outcrops (top right) are dispersed around the crater.
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Opportunity's first pictures of Mars
NASA JPL's Opportunity pictures galleryThe first color photo by Opportunity's panoramic camera of the martian landscape at Meridiani Planum. The surface around the rover has been disturbed by impressions left in the soil by the lander's airbag. The rover is on a flat, relatively dust-free plain rich in a mineral called gray hematite, which paints the ground a kind of charcoal brown color.
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