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Mars rover sets sights on distant crater

The Register: NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is about to set off on what may be its final odyssey - a seven-mile (11.3 km) jaunt to a crater around 20 times larger than the Victoria Crater from which it extricated itself earlier this month.

Posted by Physics Today on September 23, 2008 9:23 AM |

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