A Puzzling Crack

Credit: Image Credit: NASA/JPL, Posted on: Friday, 9 April 2004, 06:00 CDT Download full size image

This image, acquired by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, highlights the vast plains of Meridiani Planum. The science team is currently focused on the sinuous crack, which consists of a series of deep dimples sprinkled with rocks that resemble, from a distance, those in the Eagle Crater outcrop. On sol 70, Opportunity drove approximately 100 meters (about 328 feet) northeast to a target area along the crack dubbed Anatolia. In the coming sols, the rover will study the crack in greater detail.

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