January 28, 2004
This is what Mars looks like from the Opportunity's mother ship:

Looks like an old river channel does it not?
Hence the fascination with Mars. We know that Mars today is a hostile world, blanketed in toxic soil and zapped with radiation.
This is the landscape close up after the Opportunity Rover had landed on the surface of Mars:

It is from within a small crater on Meridiani Planum Mars.
It is looking up the side of the crater?
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