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It looks remarkably like a sinkhole. Although one could joke, "Hey guys we found your Mars Climate Explorer!"

Given the fact that its on the side of a volcano it could also be a hole in a lava tube. But whatever it is, it is really cool and damn wouldn't it be nice to have someone there we could ask to roll over and check it out?




I agree, a 115ft (35m) wide, 65ft (20m) deep sinkhole.

How far away is this from the Mars Rovers? Even having another perspective to see this would be amazing!


I think roughly 4200km from Spirit and 6400km from Opportunity:

http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Pavonis_...

http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Spirit_r...

http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Opportun...

The rovers have driven 8km and 35km respectively, so this is out of reach. :)


How far is it from the projected landing site of Curiosity?



Road trip!


Coming this summer!


An orbiter carrying tens or hundreds of small, throwaway rovers would be nice.




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