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Hunkered down in Perseverance Valley

Hunkered down in Perseverance Valley
Hunkered down in Perseverance Valley Opportunity is about hallway down Perseverance Valley pictured in this orbital image taken by the HiRISE camera on MRO on the left. You can see the notch where the valley cuts the crater rim in lower left quadrant of image. Its branching pattern becomes apparent in the center of image. The rover has been hunkered down about halfway down the valley since early June 2018, under a veil of Mars’ rusty red dust not far from where the rover took the image on the right. Left: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona; Right: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / ASU / additional processing S. Atkinson