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English: This approximate true-color image taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the impact crater known as "Endurance." Scientists are eager to explore Endurance for clues to the red planet's history. The crater's exposed walls provide a window to what lies beneath the surface of Mars and thus what geologic processes occurred there in the past. While recent studies of the smaller crater nicknamed "Eagle" revealed an evaporating body of salty water, that crater was not deep enough to indicate what came before the water. Endurance may be able to help answer this question, but the challenge is getting to the scientific targets: most of the crater's rocks are embedded in vertical cliffs. Rover planners are currently developing strategies to overcome this obstacle.

Presently, Opportunity is perched 40 centimeters (15.7 inches) away from the crater's edge. Endurance is roughly 130 meters (430 feet) across.

This image mosaic was taken by the panoramic camera's 480-, 530- and 750-nanometer filters on sols 97 and 98. It consists of a total of 258 individual images.
Français : Cette synthèse d'images en vraies couleurs prises par la caméra panoramique du rover d'exploration martienne « Opportunity », montre le cratère d'impact connu sous le nom d'« Endurance ». Les scientifiques sont impatients d'explorer ce cratère pour obtenir des indices sur l'histoire de la planète rouge. Les parois exposées du cratère offrent une fenêtre sur ce qui se trouve sous la surface de Mars et donc sur les processus géologiques qui s'y sont produits dans le passé. Alors que des études récentes sur un autre cratère, plus petit, surnommé « Eagle », ont révélé une masse d'eau salée en évaporation, ce cratère n'était pas assez profond pour indiquer ce qui se passait avant la présence de l'eau. Par contre, le cratère Endurance peut, peut-être, aider à répondre à cette question, mais le défi consiste à atteindre les cibles scientifiques : la plupart des roches du cratère sont en effet encastrées dans des falaises verticales. Les planificateurs du rover développent actuellement des stratégies pour surmonter cet obstacle.

Sur cette synthèse d'image, Opportunity se trouve perché à 40 centimètres (15,7 pouces) du bord du cratère Endurance, lequel mesure environ 130 mètres (430 pieds) de diamètre.

Cette mosaïque d'images a été prise par les filtres 480, 530 et 750 nanomètres de la caméra panoramique sur les sols 97 et 98. Elle se compose d'un total de 258 images individuelles.
Date 6 May 2004 (release date)
Source Nasa panoramas opportunity 2004
Author NASA/JPL/Cornell
Other versions 01 SS 01 Endurance B101R1.jpg (10,505px wide version)

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