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From the Landing Site up to Endurance Crater (HR)
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Original caption:"It was two years ago that the MER Opportunity landed on Meridiani Planum.
The Rover marked its first Mars-year (equivalent to 687 Earth Days - and therefore 2 Earth years) in December 2005.
In the picture shown here the "key-sites" have been labeled and the colored portion is a 3D stereo-anaglyph which can be viewed using red (left eye) and a blue (right eye) glasses.
During the landing in January 2004, rockets were fired to slow the final descent, just before the inflated airbags (containing the folded-up Lander and Rover) were released. The rockets disturbed the sandy surface at the location labeled "blast effects".
Following release, the airbags bounced and rolled until coming to rest inside Eagle Crater. The Lander, in fact, can be seen as a bright spot near the center of Eagle Crater.
Meanwhile, the jettisoned parachute and backshell landed to the South-West of Eagle while the Heatshield fell just South-West of Endurance Crater".
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