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  • bedrock within a stratigraphic layer informally named 'Gilbert'

    Opportunity View of 'Gilbert' Layer (False Color)

    This view from Opportunity shows bedrock within a stratigraphic layer, which is the lowermost of three layers the rover has examined at a bright band around the inside of Victoria Crater.

  • NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has this view northward from the position at the north edge of the 'Home Plate' plateau

    View From Spirit's Overwintering Position (False Color)

    NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has this view northward from the position at the north edge of the "Home Plate" plateau where the rover will spend its third Martian winter.

  • NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity examined rocks inside an alcove called 'Duck Bay'

    'Lyell' Panorama inside Victoria Crater (Stereo)

    During four months prior to the fourth anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity examined rocks inside an alcove called "Duck Bay" in the western portion of Victoria Crater.

  • NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity examined rocks inside an alcove called 'Duck Bay'

    'Lyell' Panorama inside Victoria Crater (False Color)

    During four months prior to the fourth anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity examined rocks inside an alcove called "Duck Bay" in the western portion of Victoria Crater.

  • NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity examined rocks inside an alcove called 'Duck Bay'

    'Lyell' Panorama inside Victoria Crater

    During four months prior to the fourth anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity examined rocks inside an alcove called "Duck Bay" in the western portion of Victoria Crater.

  • Spirit's West Valley Panorama (False Color)

    Spirit's West Valley Panorama (False Color)

    NASA'S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau where Sprit spent the closing months of 2007.

  • Spirit's West Valley Panorama (Stereo)

    Spirit's West Valley Panorama (Stereo)

    The view combines a stereo pair and appears three-dimensional when seen through blue-red glasses.

  • Spirit's West Valley Panorama

    Spirit's West Valley Panorama (Approximate True Color)

    NASA'S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau where Sprit spent the closing months of 2007.

  • Tracks made by Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity

    D-Star Panorama by Opportunity

    This view from Opportunity shows the tracks left by a drive executed with more onboard autonomy than has been used on any other drive by a Mars rover.

  • Tracks made by Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity

    D-Star Panorama by Opportunity (False Color)

    This view from Opportunity shows the tracks left by a drive executed with more onboard autonomy than has been used on any other drive by a Mars rover.

  • Cape Verde

    Cape Verde

    This Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity Pancam "super resolution" mosaic of the approximately 6 m (20 foot) high cliff face of the Cape Verde promontory was taken by the rover from inside Victoria Crater.

  • Cape St. Vincent

    Details of Layers in Victoria Crater's Cape St. Vincent

    NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity rover spent about 300 sols (Martian days) during 2006 and 2007 traversing the rim of Victoria Crater.

  • Cape St. Mary

    Cape St. Mary

    Another of the best examples of spectacular cross-bedding in Victoria crater are the outcrops at Cape St. Mary on Mars.

  • Spirit Nears North-Tilting Site for Winter Haven

    Spirit Nears North-Tilting Site for Winter Haven

    NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit made daily progress in early December 2007 toward the northern edge of a low plateau called "Home Plate."

  • Dusty Solar Panels on Spirit

    Dusty Solar Panels on Spirit

    The deck of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is so dusty that the rover almost blends into the dusty background in this image assembled from frames taken by the panoramic camera (Pancam) during the period from Spirit's Sol 1,355 through Sol 1,358 (Oct. 26-29, 2007).

  • Heading for Next Winter Haven

    Heading for Next Winter Haven

    Approaching its 47th month of a Mars surface mission originally planned to last three months, NASA's Spirit rover was also approaching the northern edge of a low plateau called "Home Plate."

  • first 414 Sols at Victoria Crater

    First 414 Sols at 'Victoria Crater'

    "Victoria Crater," about 800 meters (one-half mile) in diameter, has been home ground for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity for more 14 of the rover's first 46 months on Mars.

  • Spirit's Traverse, Sols 1 to 1,386

    Spirit's Traverse, Sols 1 to 1,386

    NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit was crossing northward on a low plateau called "Home Plate" on the 1,386th Martian day, or sol, (Nov. 26, 2007) of Spirit's time on Mars.

  • Cape Verde in false color

    Cape Verde in False Color

    A promontory nicknamed "Cape Verde" can be seen jutting out from the walls of Victoria Crater in this false-color picture taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.

  • Cape Verde in approximate true color

    Opportunity's Second Martian Birthday at Cape Verde

    A promontory nicknamed "Cape Verde" can be seen jutting out from the walls of Victoria Crater in this approximate true-color picture taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.