NASA's Mars rover Opportunity reached the rim of "Victoria Crater" in Mars' Meridiani Planum region. The rim of the crater is composed of alternating promontories, rocky points towering ...

Wheeling across the open, parking lot-like dune fields of Meridiani Planum, the robot is nearing a major milestone: Rolling up to “Victoria”, a roughly half-mile-wide crater.

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

The Mars rover Opportunity reached the rim of a deep crater Wednesday after an arduous 21-month trek, ... The road to Victoria Crater, a half-mile wide and 230-foot deep impact crater, ...

NASA scientists look for a way to get Mars rover into--and out of--a massive crater on the Red Planet. Postcards from the edge of Victoria Crater ...

Images from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor, orbiting the red planet since 1997, prompted the rover team to choose Victoria two years ago as the long-term destination for Opportunity.

While NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was traveling from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater, between September 2008 and August 2011, the rover team took an end-of-drive image on each ...

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has arrived at its first stop inside an expansive crater, where it is poised to reach out and touch what may be the ancient remains of the red planet's surface ...

The rover spent more than half of the four years since it landed on Mars studying the giant crater. Opportunity first headed for Victoria in late 2004 after visiting a smaller, stadium-sized ...

NASA's long-lived robotic rover Opportunity is beginning to explore layered rocks in cliffs ringing the massive Victoria crater on Mars. While Opportunity spent its first week at the crater, NASA ...

Mars Crater Is a 'Dream Come True' Scientists Marvel Over Never-Before-Seen Pictures of Victoria as Rover Moves Closer. September 28, 2006. By Marc Kaufman.

Wheeling across the open, parking lot-like dune fields of Meridiani Planum, the Opportunity's rover is nearing a major milestone: rolling up to "Victoria," a crater that is roughly half a mile ...