Opportunity at Endeavour Crater
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Opportunity at Endeavour Crater
ESP_024015_1775  Science Theme: Future Exploration/Landing Sites
This image, taken by HiRISE, shows the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity (at the end of the white arrow) sitting atop some light toned outcrops on the rim of Endeavour Crater.

Opportunity travelled nearly three years to reach this rim because it contains rocks even more ancient than the rocks of Meridiani Planum, which the rover has been exploring since 2004, and hence may teach us something about an even more ancient era in Martian history.



Written by: Eldar Noe  (21 September 2011)
 
Acquisition date
10 September 2011

Local Mars time
14:14

Latitude (centered)
-2.251°

Longitude (East)
354.650°

Spacecraft altitude
268.3 km (166.7 miles)

Original image scale range
27.0 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~81 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
5.7°

Phase angle
39.3°

Solar incidence angle
34°, with the Sun about 56° above the horizon

Solar longitude
358.6°, Northern Winter

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  7.5°
JPEG
Black and white
map projected  non-map

IRB color
map projected  non-map

Merged IRB
map projected

Merged RGB
map projected

RGB color
non-map projected

JP2
Black and white
map-projected   (1127MB)

IRB color
map-projected   (597MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected  (551MB)
non-map           (656MB)

IRB color
map projected  (254MB)
non-map           (569MB)

Merged IRB
map projected  (282MB)

Merged RGB
map-projected  (287MB)

RGB color
non map           (552MB)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
B&W label
Color label
Merged IRB label
Merged RGB label
EDR products
HiView

NB
IRB: infrared-red-blue
RGB: red-green-blue
About color products (PDF)

Black & white is 5 km across; enhanced color about 1 km
For scale, use JPEG/JP2 black & white map-projected images

USAGE POLICY
All of the images produced by HiRISE and accessible on this site are within the public domain: there are no restrictions on their usage by anyone in the public, including news or science organizations. We do ask for a credit line where possible:
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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.