[meteorite-list] New Rover Snapshots Capture Endeavour Crater Vistas

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:37:58 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201108192337.p7JNbw8L011428_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-259

New Rover Snapshots Capture Endeavour Crater Vistas
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
August 19, 2011

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured new images of
intriguing Martian terrain from a small crater near the rim of the large
Endeavour crater. The rover arrived at the 13-mile-diameter
(21-kilometer-diameter) Endeavour on Aug. 9, after a journey of almost
three years.

Opportunity is now examining the ejected material from the small crater,
named "Odyssey." The rover is approaching a large block of ejecta for
investigation with tools on the rover's robotic arm.

Opportunity and Spirit completed their three-month prime missions on
Mars in April 2004. Both rovers continued for years of bonus, extended
missions. Both have made important discoveries about wet environments on
ancient Mars that may have been favorable for supporting microbial life.
Spirit ended communications in March 2010.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute
of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover Project
for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. More information
about the rovers is online at: http://www.nasa.gov/rovers or
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov .

Guy Webster 818-354-6278
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
guy.webster at jpl.nasa.gov

2011-259
Received on Fri 19 Aug 2011 07:37:58 PM PDT