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Driving into new terrain

Driving into new terrain
Driving into new terrain As Opportunity headed deeper into Perseverance Valley, she drove onto a distinctive kind of terrain, visible in foreground of this image. While the surface appears to be “smooth and polished,” as Rover Planner Paolo Bellutta described it, in fact, it has “a very rough finish, similar to rough concrete or asphalt.” NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / ASU