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Eye on “Bounce”

This mosaic, created from four images taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's microscopic imager, outlines the target on 'Bounce'…

Visiting the Scene of Landing

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity focuses on the rock dubbed 'Bounce,' which the rover's airbag-wrapped lander hit upon landing in…

Discovery Served Up in a Bowl

This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera is an approximate true-color rendering of the exceptional rock called…

A Bowl of Hematite-Rich ‘Berries’

This graph shows spectra of outcrop regions near NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's landing site. Blue line shows data which…

Hematite Abundance Map at Echo

This image shows the hematite abundance map for a portion of the Meridiani Planum rock outcrop called 'Echo' near where…

Patches of Hematite

These maps, acquired from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity prior to the rover's roll-off, show the five locations the rover…

Here-a-Hematite, There-a-Hematite

These maps from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera mast assembly, show the hematite abundance as detected by the…

Messy Grind

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the results of grinding of its first target with the rock abrasion tool. The…

Seeing Red at Guadalupe

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the results of the second drilling by the rock abrasion tool. The drilling took…