NASA Mars Rover on Final Approach to Huge Crater Rim

"The Mars rover known as Opportunity has caught a glimpse of the Endeavour crater and is now less than a football field's distance away from the rim.

Reaching the rim of Endeavour has been a long-term goal of the Mars rover team since August 2008, when Opportunity left the Victoria crater, which it had been exploring for two years. Endeavour, however, is more than 25 times wider than Victoria at 14 miles in diameter. Opportunity is scheduled to arrive at a section of the crater's rim known as "Spirit Point" on the western side of Endeavour in the coming days.

'Observations by orbiting spacecraft indicate that the ridges along Endeavour's western rim expose rock outcrops older than any Opportunity has seen so far,' NASA said...." To read more, click here.