COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Record
Title:
Rind-Like Features at a Meridiani Outcrop
Original Caption Released with Image:
Annotated image of PIA04189 Rind-Like Features at a Meridiani Outcrop After months spent crossing a sea of rippled sands, Opportunity reached an outcrop in August 2005 and began investigating exposures of sedimentary rocks, intriguing rind-like features that appear to cap the rocks, and cobbles that dot the martian surface locally. Opportunity spent several martian days, or sols, analyzing a feature called "Lemon Rind," a thin surface layer covering portions of outcrop rocks poking through the sand north of "Erebus Crater." In images from the panoramic camera, Lemon Rind appears slightly different in color than surrounding rocks. It also appears to be slightly more resistant to wind erosion than the outcrop's interior. This is an approximately true-color composite produced from frames taken during Opportunity's 552nd martian day, or sol (Aug. 13, 2005).
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Cornell
Produced By:
Cornell University
Mission:
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Spacecraft:
Opportunity
Target Name:
Mars
Is a satellite of:
Sol (our sun)
Instrument:
Panoramic Camera
Product Size:
1024 samples x 512 lines
facet_what:
Crater
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_when:
August 2005
facet_when_year:
2005
Image #:
PIA04189
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA04189
