Satellite View of MER-B Journey Around Victoria Crater

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

by Staff Writers
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 29, 2007
Three years after embarking on a historic exploration of the red planet and six miles away from its landing site, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is traversing "Victoria Crater" ridge by ridge, peering at layered cliffs in the interior. To identify various alcoves and cliffs along the way, science team members are using names of places visited by the 16th-century Earth explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew aboard the ship Victoria, who proved the Earth is round. (All names are unofficial unless approved by the International Astronomical Union.)

This orbital view of "Victoria Crater" was taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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HiRise Camera Shows Mojave Crater Peak Is High And Dry

Tuscon AZ (SPX) Jan 25, 2007
The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took a huge, detailed image of Mars' Mojave crater on Jan. 7, 2007. Part of that photograph shows the central uplift structure in the crater. Rocks that form this peak were several kilometers beneath the surface until an impact formed the 37 mile-diameter (60 kilometer) crater just north of Mars' equator. The HiRISE image shows that boulders as large as 50 feet across (15 meters) have eroded from the massive uplifted rock and rolled downslope.

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