Volume 36, Number 13, November 11, 2004

Rovers demand long hours from CU's 'Martians'

NASA/JPL/Cornell; Inset: NASA/JPL/Cornell/USGS

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity examined this 3-foot-wide rock, dubbed Wopmay (after a legendary Canadian bush pilot), inside Endurance crater on Oct. 7. The image was discussed by the mission's scientific principal investigator, Cornell astronomy Professor Steve Squyres, in a telephone press conference with national media from Cornell's Space Sciences Building on Nov. 4.
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