Mars Rover Leaves Crater for Martian Plains

After nearly a year rolling around inside an expansive crater on Mars, NASA's trusty rover Opportunity is headed back out to explore the Martian plains.

"The rover is back on flat ground," said Paolo Belluta, engineer and rover driver at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

"We're headed to the next adventure out on the plains of Meridiani," said John Callas, NASA's rover project manager for Opportunity and its robotic twin Spirit on the other side of Mars. "We safely got into the crater, we completed our exploration there and we safely got out."

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