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Intrepid Crater on Mars
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Intrepid Crater on Mars
Explanation: The robotic rover Opportunity has chanced across another small crater on Mars.
Pictured above
is Intrepid Crater, a 20-meter across impact basin slightly larger than
Nereus Crater
that
Opportunity
chanced across last year. The
above image
is in approximately true color but horizontally
compressed
to accommodate a
wide angle panorama
. Intrepid Crater was named after the
lunar module Intrepid
that carried
Apollo 12 astronauts
to
Earth's Moon
41 years ago last month. Beyond Intrepid Crater and past long patches of
rusty
Martian desert lie peaks from the rim of large
Endeavour Crater
, visible on the horizon. If Opportunity can avoid ridged rocks and
soft sand
, it may reach Endeavour sometime next year. Students:
Review lectures and slides for Introductory Astronomy
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