NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Movie: Flying Over Opportunity’s Work Site

Images of “Victoria Crater” in Mars’ Meridiani Planum region, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, provided detailed, three-dimensional information that was used to create this animation of a hypothetical flyover. NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reached the edge of this crater in September 2006 and began exploring its rim clockwise.

Victoria is about 800 meters (one-half mile) in diameter. This animated flyover approaches the crater from the south, and then moves counterclockwise around part of the rim. An enhanced glimpse of Opportunity appears at a location where the rover was seen by the orbiter.

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/U.S. Geological Survey

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