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Fresh tracks in Perseverance Valley, February 2008

Fresh tracks in Perseverance Valley, February 2008
Fresh tracks in Perseverance Valley, February 2008 Opportunity took this image of her tracks with her Pancam in mid-February 2018 while looking for clues inside Perseverance Valley that will enable to the scientists to determine how this distinctive, ancient geological feature formed billions of years ago. Author, astronomy outreach educator, and contributor to The Planetary Society’s Amateur Space Images Archive, Stuart Atkinson processed this version in his stylistic Martian technocolor. Atkinson has followed this rover’s journey for years. See his The Road to Endeavour. NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / ASU / S. Atkinson