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Old February 9th 04, 08:29 PM
Marco
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Default Opportunity backshell and the parachute

I'm almost sure to have discovered, in one of the last images released
by JPL/MER and acquired by MER-A navigation camera on Sol 13, the
backshell and the parachute, located not far from the rover. The
feature wasn't visible in the previously released images because the
rim of the crater covered the horizon in that direction from the
initial rover/lander location.
The images code is 1N129339550EFF0300P1652L0M1/R0M1 (look to the left
portion of the horizon).
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...0P1652R0M1.JPG
Any comment? Regards.