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Wind-Sculpted Vicinity After Opportunity's Sol 1797 Drive (Stereo)

March 3, 2009
This stereo mosaic of images from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows surroundings of the rover's location following an 111 meters (364 feet) drive east-northeastward on Feb. 12, 2009. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.

Left-eye view of a color stereo pair for PIA11820
Left-eye view of a color stereo pair for PIA11820
Right-eye view of a stereo pair for PIA11820
Right-eye view of a color stereo pair for PIA11820

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this stereo, full-circle view of the rover's surroundings just after driving 111 meters (364 feet) on the 1,797th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's surface mission (Feb. 12, 2009). North is at the center; south at both ends.

This view is the right-eye member of a stereo pair presented as a cylindrical-perspective projection with geometric seam correction.

Tracks from the drive recede northward across dark-toned sand ripples in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars. Patches of lighter-toned bedrock are visible on the left and right sides of the image. For scale, the distance between the parallel wheel tracks is about 1 meter (about 40 inches).

This view is presented as a cylindrical-perspective projection with geometric seam correction.

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