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NEWS RELEASE: 2004-036
January 25, 2004
First Images Of Opportunity Site Show Bizarre Landscape
NASA's Opportunity rover returned the first pictures of its landing site
early today, revealing a surreal, dark landscape unlike any ever seen
before on Mars.
Opportunity relayed the images and other data via NASA's Mars Odyssey
orbiter. The data showed that the spacecraft is healthy, said Matt
Wallace, mission manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"Opportunity has touched down in a bizarre, alien landscape," said Dr.
Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., principal
investigator for the science instruments on Opportunity and its twin,
Spirit. "I'm flabbergasted. I'm astonished. I'm blown away."
The terrain is darker than at any previous Mars landing site and has the
first accessible bedrock outcropping ever seen on Mars. The outcropping
immediately became a candidate target for the rover to visit and examine
up close.
Wallace noted that the straight-ahead path looks clear for the rover to
roll off its lander platform. The rover is facing north-northeast.
JPL Administrator Dr. Charles Elachi said, "This team succeeded the old
fashioned way. They were excellent, they were determined, and they
worked very hard."
JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena,
manages the Mars Exploration Rover project for NASA's Office of Space
Science, Washington. Images and additional information about the project
are available from JPL at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov
and from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., at http://athena.cornell.edu
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