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Halfway Down Perseverance Valley

Halfway Down Perseverance Valley
Halfway Down Perseverance Valley Opportunity took the frames that went into this panorama with her Navigation Camera in early March 2018. The tracks show how the rover has moved around this site about halfway down the length of Perseverance Valley. Author and planetary outreach educator, Stuart Atkinson stitched the frames together processed this image. A frequent image contributor to The MER Update, Atkinson also contributes to The Planetary Society’s Amateur Space Images Archive, He has followed this rover’s journey for years. See his The Road to Endeavour. NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / ASU / S. Atkinson