[cripplecreek]

Kind of hoping they send opportunity off toward what looks like cliffs in the distance.

[cogitator]

Kind of hoping they send opportunity off toward what looks like cliffs in the distance.

That's the plan. The cliffs are the rim of "Endeavour" crater, which is considerably bigger than "Eagle" crater which Opportunity opportunistically landed in. It's about 3/4 km from Eagle crater, and that's where they're headed now. And the plain that there on is so featureless there is hardly anything else to look at, but they have found a little furrow to investigate.

[cogitator]

I made an error; they're calling the big crater "Endurance", not "Endeavour". Here's a picture of where they've been and where they might be going: They're about 1/5th of the way from Eagle Crater to Endurance Crater (but they can cover an easy 100m a day when they want to on this flat terrain).