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Multiple horizontal rock layers extend from left to right across a vertical cliff face, topped by a layer of boulders, in this mosaic of panoramic images. Several cracks filled with sediment zigzag downward from top to bottom across the layers. On the lower right are the front edges of the rover's solar panels.
'Burns Cliff' Color Panorama
12/13/2004
Opportunity
Deep inside Endurance Crater, Opportunity takes a "wide-eye" view of the crater's daunting cliff face before exiting another way.
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this view of "Burns Cliff" after driving right to the base of the southeastern portion of the inner wall of "Endurance Crater." The view combines frames taken by Opportunity's panoramic camera between the rover's 287th and 294th martian days (Nov. 13 to 20, 2004).

This is a composite of 46 different images, each acquired in seven different Pancam filters. It is an approximately true-color rendering generated from the panoramic camera's 750-nanometer, 530-nanometer and 430-nanometer filters. The mosaic spans more than 180 degrees side to side. Because of this wide-angle view, the cliff walls appear to bulge out toward the camera. In reality the walls form a gently curving, continuous surface.

Opportunity safely exited Endurance Crater on December 12, 2004 (sol 315) after a six-month investigation inside. Opportunity is once again on the plains of Meridiani Planum and will attempt to travel farther into the unknown.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell