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A glimpse into 2018

A glimpse into 2018
A glimpse into 2018 From the gentle slope in Perseverance Valley where Opportunity spent the 2017 holiday season, the robot captured these frames with her Panoramic Camera (Pancam), and the Pancam team processed them in false color. They show a part of her panoramic view of the ‘fork in the road’ or bifurcation, the point where the large trough or channel in the valley splits into two forks. “This is a braided channel and it divides and it comes back together and we’re at one of the divides,” said MER Principal Investigator Steve Squyres as December came to a close. NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / ASU