Intrepid Crater on Mars
Explanation:
The robotic rover Opportunity has chanced across another small crater on Mars.
Pictured above is
Intrepid Crater, a 20-meter across impact basin
slightly larger than
Nereus Crater that
Opportunity chanced across last year.
The
above image is
in approximately true color but horizontally
compressed
to accommodate a
wide angle panorama.
Intrepid Crater was named after the
lunar module Intrepid that carried
Apollo 12 astronauts to
Earth's Moon 41 years ago last month.
Beyond Intrepid Crater and past long patches of
rusty Martian desert lie peaks from the rim of large
Endeavor Crater, visible
on the horizon.
If Opportunity can avoid ridged rocks and
soft sand,
it may reach Endeavour sometime next year.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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