Opportunity Still Knocks
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Opportunity Still Knocks
ESP_021536_1780  Science Theme: Future Exploration/Landing Sites
HiRISE acquired this color image of Santa Maria Crater, with the Opportunity rover perched on the southeast rim. Rover tracks are clearly visible to the east.

Opportunity has been studying this relatively fresh 90 meter diameter crater to better understand how crater excavation occurred during the impact and how it has been modified by weathering and erosion since. Note the surrounding bright blocks and rays of ejecta.

Spectral information from CRISM indicates a hydrated sulfate at this location. Opportunity is about 6 kilometers from the rim of Endeavour Crater, which CRISM indicates both hydrated sulfates as well as phyllosilicates that formed in a wetter past.



Written by: Matthew Golombek  (9 March 2011)
 
Acquisition date
01 March 2011

Local Mars time
15:08

Latitude (centered)
-2.183°

Longitude (East)
354.553°

Spacecraft altitude
268.7 km (167.0 miles)

Original image scale range
27.2 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~82 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
9.7°

Phase angle
59.3°

Solar incidence angle
50°, with the Sun about 40° above the horizon

Solar longitude
246.1°, Northern Autumn

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  96°
Sub-solar azimuth:  336.7°
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RGB: red-green-blue
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Black & white is 5 km across; enhanced color about 1 km
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POSTSCRIPT
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The HiRISE camera was built by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation and is operated by the University of Arizona.