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Challenger Memorial Station

A composite image reveals the local region of Merdiani Planum surrounding the Challenger Memorial Station. The image is actually an amalgamation of a Mars Global Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Camera image and the third and final picture taken by Opportunity's DIMES camera (Descent Image Motion Estimation System) during descent. The location of the site is a 20-meter (65.6 foot) wide, 2-meter (6.6 foot) deep crater somewhere in this composite image. The final crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger was lost when the shuttle suffered an in-flight breakup during launch on Jan. 28, 1986.

A smaller version of this photo was included in the article:
Space Shuttle Challenger Crew Memorialized on Mars - January 28, 2004

 

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