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Crater on Mars
Crater on Mars
Iazu is an impact crater in the Meridiani Planum extraterrestrial plain, within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars. It is about 7 km in diameter.[1] It is close to the landing site of the Mars Exploration Rover-B Opportunity, and its walls have been photographed by the spacecraft during its traverse to Endeavour Crater. At the time, the crater was about 38 kilometers (24 mi) away.[2] It was named in 2006 for Iazu, a village in Dâmbovița County, southern Romania.[1]
Bopolu (crater) is west of Iazu and Endeavour crater.
Views from orbit
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Endeavour_Crater_Annotated_2009-03-07.jpg/500px-Endeavour_Crater_Annotated_2009-03-07.jpg)
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Context_mapmerbsol2239.jpg/500px-Context_mapmerbsol2239.jpg)
From surface
Context map
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Meridianicropped.png)
See also
References
- ^ a b "Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Iazu on Mars". planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2015-09-23.
- ^ "One Mars Rover Sees A Distant Goal; The Other Takes A New Route". NASA/JPL. 2009-03-18. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
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