Showing signs of wear after more than seven years driving across the plains of Mars, NASA's Opportunity rover is investigating a broad impact crater unlike any place ever visited on the Red Planet, effectively beginning a new mission for the celebrated robot, scientists said Thursday. Opportunity captured this mosaic of Endeavour crater on Aug. 6. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech "This has the potential to be the most revealing destination ever explored by Opportunity," said Dave Lavery, the mission's program executive at NASA headquarters. "This region is substantially different than anything we've seen before. We are looking at this next phase of Opportunity's exploration as a whole new...
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