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Images from Opportunity

December 31, 1969

     
image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity perched on the edge of 'Concepción' crater in Meridiani Planum, Mars Opportunity at 'Concepción' Crater, Seen from Orbit, with Arrow

This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity perched on the edge of "Concepción" crater in Meridiani Planum, Mars.

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image from the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows details of the coating on a rock called 'Chocolate Hills' Coating on Rock Beside a Young Martian Crater

Opportunity's microscopic imager took this detail view of the coating on "Chocolate Hills," on which a layer of peppercorn-size spheres nicknamed "blueberries" are packed densely.

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Rock with Odd Coating Beside a Young Martian Crater, False Color Rock with Odd Coating Beside a Young Martian Crater, False Color

This view from Opportunity's panoramic camera shows "Chocolate Hills" in false color, which makes some differences between materials easier to see.

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Rock with Odd Coating Beside a Young Martian Crater Rock with Odd Coating Beside a Young Martian Crater

This image from the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a rock called "Chocolate Hills," which the rover found and examined at the edge of a young crater called "Concepción."

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