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The Opportunity rover is poking into layers of rock on the inside of Victoria Crater after rolling into the crater over the last few days. The Martian crater is about a half-mile wide. The rocks along its edge were deposited over hundreds of millions of years, so the rover will be giving scientists a peek into the planet's distant past. [NASA/JPL]

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