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Opportunity Gets One Last Look at Victoria

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
November 6, 2008

NASA Mars Opportunity Rover: Shake, Rattle, and Ready to Roll

“Opportunity got some good vibrations going this week while trying to remove dust from the mirror of the miniature thermal emission spectrometer, an instrument that measures temperatures and detects minerals from a distance. Using low-level motor commands on the rover’s 1,680th sol, or Martian day of exploration (Oct. 14, 2008), Opportunity created a short vibration to shake the instrument’s external scan mirror. Opportunity also got into position for the final imaging campaign at “Victoria Crater,” driving onto a promontory known as “Cape Agulhas.” From here, the rover acquired images of rocks exposed in a promontory known as “Cape Victory.”

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