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Mars Exploration Rover
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission was a robotic space mission involving two Mars rovers, '' Spirit'' and '' Opportunity'', exploring the planet Mars. It began in 2003 with the launch of the two rovers to explore the Martian surface ...
mission successfully landed and operated the rovers ''
Spirit
Spirit or spirits may refer to:
Liquor and other volatile liquids
* Spirits, a.k.a. liquor, distilled alcoholic drinks
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* Volatile (especially flammable) liquids, ...
'' and ''
Opportunity
Opportunity may refer to:
Places
* Opportunity, Montana, an unincorporated community, United States
* Opportunity, Nebraska, an unincorporated community, United States
* Opportunity, Washington, a former census-designated place, United States
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'' on the planet
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin at ...
from 2004 to 2018. During ''Spirit''s six years of operation and ''Opportunity''s fourteen years of operation, the rovers drove a total of on the Martian surface, visiting various surface features in their landing sites of
Gusev crater
Gusev is a crater on the planet Mars and is located at and is in the Aeolis quadrangle. The crater is about 166 kilometers in diameter and formed approximately three to four billion years ago. It was named after Russian astronomer Matvey Gusev ...
and
Meridiani Planum
The Meridiani Planum (alternately Meridiani plain, Meridiani plains, Terra Meridiani, or Terra Meridiani plains) is either a large plain straddling the equator of Mars and covered with a vast number of spherules containing a lot of iron oxide or ...
, respectively.
''Spirit''
Hills
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Apollo 1 Hills
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Grissom Hill
The Apollo 1 Hills are three hills on Mars named to memorialize the crew of Apollo 1. The three hills were some of the first landmarks sighted following the January 7, 2004, landing of the ''Spirit'' rover on Mars.
Background
NASA astronauts G ...
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Columbia Hills
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Husband Hill
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McCool Hill
Craters
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Bonneville crater
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Gusev crater
Gusev is a crater on the planet Mars and is located at and is in the Aeolis quadrangle. The crater is about 166 kilometers in diameter and formed approximately three to four billion years ago. It was named after Russian astronomer Matvey Gusev ...
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Thira crater
Rocks
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Adirondack
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Home Plate
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Humphrey
Humphrey is both a masculine given name and a surname. An earlier form, not attested since Medieval times, was Hunfrid.
Notable people with the name include:
People with the given name Medieval period
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Pot of Gold
Miscellaneous
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Larry's Lookout
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Sleepy Hollow
''Opportunity''
Craters
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Argo crater
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Beagle crater
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Bopolu crater
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Concepción crater
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Eagle crater
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Emma Dean crater
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Endeavour (crater)
Endeavour is an impact crater located in the Meridiani Planum extraterrestrial plain within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars. Endeavour is about in diameter. Using ''Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter'' data, ph ...
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Cape Tribulation
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Marathon Valley
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Cape York
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Greeley Haven
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Solander Point
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Endurance crater
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Erebus crater
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Fram crater
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Naturaliste crater
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Nereus crater
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Santa Maria crater
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Victoria crater
Victoria is an impact crater on Mars located at 2.05°S, 5.50°W in the Meridiani Planum extraterrestrial plain, lying situated within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars. This crater was first visited by the Mars ...
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Cape Verde
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Vostok crater
Rocks
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Block Island meteorite
Block Island meteorite, officially. named Meridiani Planum 006 shortened as MP 006, was found on Mars by the ''Opportunity'' rover on July 17, 2009. It is about across.
History
Block Island was the first of three iron meteorites encountered by ...
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Bounce Rock
Bounce Rock is a football-sized primarily pyroxene rock found within the Meridiani Planum of the planet Mars. It was discovered and observed by the Mars Exploration Rover ''Opportunity
Opportunity may refer to:
Places
* Opportunity, Montana, ...
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El Capitan
El Capitan ( es, El Capitán; "the Captain" or "the Chief") is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end. The granite monolith is about from base to summit along its talles ...
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Heat Shield Rock
Heat Shield Rock is a basketball-sized iron-nickel meteorite found on the Meridiani Planum plain of Mars by the Mars rover ''Opportunity'' in January 2005.
Informally referred to as "Heat Shield Rock" by the Opportunity research team, the m ...
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Last Chance
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Mackinac Island meteorite
Mackinac Island meteorite was found on Mars by the ''Opportunity'' rover on October 13, 2009.
History
Mackinac Island was the third of three iron meteorites encountered by the rover on Meridiani Planum within a few hundred meters, the others bei ...
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Matijevic Hill
Matijevic Hill, named after American NASA engineer Jacob "Jake" Matijevic (1947 - 2012), is a hill located on " Cape York", itself on the western rim of Endeavour Crater lying within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the plan ...
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Oileán Ruaidh
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Shelter Island meteorite
Shelter Island meteorite was found on Mars by the ''Opportunity'' rover on October 1, 2009. It is about long.
History
Shelter Island was the second of three iron meteorites encountered by the rover on Meridiani Planum within a few hundred meter ...
See also
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List of craters on Mars
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List of rocks on Mars
This is an alphabetical list of named rocks (and meteorites) found on Mars, by mission. This list is a sampling of rocks viewed, and is not an exhaustive listing. A more complete listing may be found on the various NASA mission web sites. This lis ...
References
{{Mars spacecraft
Mars visited by Spirit and Opportunity, List of surface features of
Visited by Spirit and Opportunity, List of surface features of Mars
Surface features of Mars visited by Spirit and Opportunity. List of