Martian landscape, true-colour panorama, obtained by the Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover. This is the Payson outcrop on the western edge of the Ere

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Martian landscape, true-colour panorama, obtained by the Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover. This is the Payson outcrop on the western edge of the Erebus crater. The crater wall (orange) is about 1 metre thick, and was formed by the impact event that formed the crater. The area is being studied to understand how Martian rocks erode. Opportunity landed in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars in January 2004. The colours of the image were created by combining camera filters to approximate what a human would see. The enhanced false-colour image is R360/243. This 90-degree image was obtained on 26 February 2006, on the 744th Martian day of the rover's mission.

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Size: 5295px × 1950px
Photo credit: © NASA/JPL-CALTECH/USGS/CORNELL/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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