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This animation shows a hypothetical flyover above Victoria Crater, where
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is perched on a rim. The rover
is expected to begin rolling down into the crater in early July 2007.
The first part of the movie is based on data taken by the Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment
camera. A simulated rover is shown at the site where Opportunity will
enter the crater, an alcove nicknamed "Duck Bay." The movie then
transitions to a panoramic view of Victoria Crater taken from the top of
Duck Bay by Opportunity's panoramic camera.
