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This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity near the rim of
Victoria Crater.
Victoria is an impact crater about 800 meters (half a mile) in diameter at Meridiani Planum near the equator of Mars. Opportunity has been operating on Mars since January, 2004. Five days before this image was taken, Opportunity arrived at the rim of Victoria, after a drive of more than 9 kilometers (over 5 miles). It then drove to the position where it is seen in this image.
Opportunity at Crater's 'Cape Verde' Photographed from Orbiter
Seeded on Fri Oct 6, 2006 2:39 PM EDT
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I generally don't care for seeding governmental press releases, even from NASA, but it's just not everyday we have a man-made satellite photographing a man-made rover on another planet. Well done, NASA.
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