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Published online 29 September 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060925-16
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Mars rover keeps on trucking
Opportunity reaches the rim of a giant crater.
What's the Opportunity rover up to now?
Opportunity has just finished an epic voyage to the edge of Victoria crater and is taking a good look over the side.
It has taken 21 months to make the 9-kilometre journey – breakneck speed, according to project scientist Bruce Banerdt at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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