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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Gets New View of Victoria Crater

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Aug 12, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This image of Victoria Crater in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at more ...

One Mars Rover Sees a Distant Goal; The Other Takes a New Route

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Mar 18, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (7) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- On a plain that stretches for miles in every direction, the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of the big crater ...

Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends to Level Ground

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Sep 01, 2008 | 4.9 / 5 (13) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has climbed out of the large crater that it had been examining from the inside since last September.

On the Rim of 'Victoria Crater'

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Sep 27, 2006 | 4.3 / 5 (16) | 0

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity reached the rim of "Victoria Crater" in Mars' Meridiani Planum region with a 26-meter (85-foot) drive during the rover's 951st Martian day, or sol (Sept. 26, 2006). After the drive, ...

NASA Rover Opportunity Takes First Peek Into Victoria Crater

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Sep 20, 2006 | 4.3 / 5 (9) | 0

On Monday, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity got to within about 160 feet of the rim of the half-mile-wide Victoria Crater, the rover's destination since late 2004.

A Panoramic View of the Red Planet's Victoria Crater

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Jan 25, 2008 | 3.8 / 5 (18) | 0

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.

Mars Rover Opportunity To Head Toward Bigger Crater

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Sep 22, 2008 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the past two years.

NASA Mars Rover Ready for Descent Into Crater

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Jun 28, 2007 | 4.7 / 5 (15) | 0

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is scheduled to begin a descent down a rock-paved slope into the Red Planet's massive Victoria Crater. This latest trek carries real risk for the long-lived robotic explorer, ...

Opportunity Rover Sees Variable Environmental History at Martian Victoria Crater

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May 21, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (13) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater.

Risky Descent

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Jun 29, 2007 | 4.6 / 5 (8) | 0

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is scheduled to begin a descent down a rock-paved slope into the Red Planet's massive Victoria Crater. This carries real risk for the long-lived robotic explorer, but NASA and ...

Mars rover Opportunity sets out on its greatest journey yet

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Sep 25, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Mars rover Opportunity, which has just crawled out of the 800-meter-wide (875 yards) Victoria Crater is setting out on the longest journey of its life. It will take the rover roughly two ...

MRO Sees Rover from Orbit

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Oct 06, 2006 | 4.7 / 5 (74) | 0

With stunningly powerful vision, the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken a remarkable picture that shows the exploration rover Opportunity poised on the rim of Victoria crater on Mars.

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