Autonomous vehicle Opportunity to reach the largest crater in Mars

Scientists yesterday (October 6) said they are drawing the next motion diagram for Mars self-driving Opportunity - after Opportunity moves to the edge of a geologically rich deep hole at "red planet" .

Six-wheeled robot Opportunity experienced the first week of Mars's largest crater.

Opportunity has taken pictures of jagged cracks 0.8 km wide with thick rocky cliffs containing clues about Mars's past.

Source: space.com Photographs from the Mars orbiting survey ship launched last year gave scientists a panoramic view of Victoria's crater and traces of erosion around the edge.

By studying the close-up of the region around the Opportunity vehicle and the aerial photos taken from Mars orbiting survey ships, scientists hope to draw the safest path to the autonomous motor vehicle Opportunity to come and examine. Close to the inner walls of Victoria's crater.

Opportunity ran for 21 months to reach Victoria's crater.

Scientists hope that the layers of stone exposed in Victoria's pit promise to shed light on whether or not life exists on Mars.

Now scientists are surveying the deep layers of rocks exposed at Lake Victoria and preliminary analysis shows marked differences in layers of sedimentary rocks - demonstrating that the climate in this area has been vagaries.