Object Name:	Mars
Object Description:	Location of Opportunity Lander Site - January 2004
Instrument:	ACS/HRC
Date of Observation:	August 2003
Exposure Time:	1 second
Filters:	F892N (892nm)
Proposal Information:	9975 P. James (U. Toledo)
Image Credit:	NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

"Spirit is the first of two golf-cart-sized rovers headed for Mars landings in January. The rovers will seek evidence about whether the environment in two regions might once have been capable of supporting life. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., have navigated Spirit to arrive during the evening of Jan. 3, 2004, in the Eastern time zone.

Spirit will land near the center of Gusev Crater, which may have once held a lake. Three weeks later, Opportunity will reach the Meridiani Planum, a region containing exposed deposits of a mineral that usually forms under watery conditions."