Opportunity Heading South To Victoria

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Opportunity's drive toward Victoria Crater (lower right) from Erebus Crater (center) will be a long and difficult journey taking many many sols. Image credit: NASA/JPL

by Staff Writers
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2006
Mars Rover controllers report that Opportunity remains healthy and is continuing to drive toward Victoria Crater. The rover covered a distance totaling about 170 meters (558 feet) during the week, and has been sending back images containing lots of ripples sprinkled with a dash of outcrops.

Opportunity sol-by-sol highlights:

Sol 778 (April 2): Opportunity drove 25.3 meters (83 feet) and used its navigation and panoramic cameras to image the area after the drive. The rover also observed the atmosphere.

Sol 779: The rover took 13-filter panoramic camera images to survey the ground near it. The miniature thermal emission spectrometer observed the sky and ground.

Sol 780: Opportunity drove 58.4 meters (192 feet), took navigation and panoramic camera images of the post-drive area, and conducted atmospheric and remote sensing.

Sol 781: The rover drove 32 meters (105 feet), used its navigation and panoramic cameras to image the post drive-area, and conducted atmospheric remote sensing.

Sol 782: Opportunity drove 45 meters (148 feet), used its navigation and panoramic cameras to image the post-drive area, and conducted atmospheric remote sensing.

Sols 783 and 784 (April 7 and 8): Controllers planned for the rover to conduct some targeted remote sensing.

Odometry: As of the end of sol 782 on April 6, Opportunity had traveled 7,249 meters or 4.5 miles.

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