PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency's rover Opportunity will soon be back on Mars' plains after nearly a year in a large Martian crater studying ancient rock layers.
"We've done everything we entered Victoria Crater to do and more," said Bruce Banerdt, of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Banerdt is project scientist for Opportunity and its rover twin, Spirit.