Opportunity Rover - Risky Descent

[iceman]

A new story from Dr Tony Phillips of Science@NASA:



Check out the full article here: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/28jun_descent.htm?list149304

Some incredible images in the article, including seeing the tracks of the rover around the crater as imaged by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.

Worth checking out.

[Dennis]

Wow – what a spectacular image of "Cape St. Vincent," one of the many promontories that jut out from the walls of Victoria Crater.

Cheers

Dennis

[Ric]

Those rovers have charmed lives, they have exceeded their life expectancies many times over and keep on sending back amazing images and data.
Opportunity will probably make it back out with no problems.

Cheers