Mars rover reaches first destination inside Victoria Crater

NASA's rover Opportunity has reached its first stop inside a huge Martian crater and was poised Thursday to carry out the first science experiments.

Ground controllers planned to send commands late in the day to the six-wheel robot to examine bright rock layers arranged like a bathtub ring within Victoria Crater. Results on how the rover fared are expected Friday, said John Callas, the rover project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

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