Rover to Survey Possible Ocean Crater on Mars
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
NASA is sending its Opportunity rover around a gaping Martian crater that may have formed in a salty ocean. The rover will spend the next several weeks circumnavigating the 430-foot-wide Endurance crater and photographing its interior.
If they determine it’s safe, scientists may send the rover skidding into the 66-foot-deep crater. Bedrock in the crater is deeper, and therefore older, than a far smaller outcrop half a mile away that Opportunity found was formed in a wet environment suitable for life.
