Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Title:
Looking Closely at 'Yuri'
Original Caption Released with Image:
This picture from the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is a mosaic of a target called "Gagarin" on a rock referred to as "Yuri." Opportunity brushed the target with the rock abrasion tool during the rover's 401st martian day, or sol, (March 10, 2005) and then took the individual images that are combined into this mosaic. The rock abrasion tool ground into the same target on the following sol.

The circle from which the tool's wire brush has scoured dust off the rock surface is about 5 centimeters (2 inches) in diameter.

This rock is near the rim of "Vostok" crater. Yuri Gagarin was the first man to orbit Earth. The Russian cosmonaut's spacecraft was named Vostok NASA/JPL/Cornell/USG S1.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Cornell/USG S
Produced By:
JPL
Mission:
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Spacecraft:
Opportunity
Target Name:
Mars
Is a satellite of:
Sol (our sun)
Instrument:
Microscopic Imager
Product Size:
2094 samples x 1767 lines
facet_who:
Yuri Gagarin
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
Crater
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Mars
facet_what:
Opportunity
facet_what:
Imager
facet_what:
WIRE
facet_what:
Microscopic Imager
facet_what:
Rock Abrasion Tool
facet_what:
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
facet_where:
Mars
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_when:
March 10, 2005
facet_when_year:
2005
Image #:
PIA07480
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA07480
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Looking Closely at 'Yuri'