Fram (crater)

Fram is an impact crater on the Meridiani Planum extraterrestrial plain, in the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars. It was visited by the rover Opportunity (MER-B) on Sol 84, April 24, 2004.

Fram is about 8 metres (26 feet) in diameter. Opportunity paused beside it while travelling from the rover's landing site toward a larger crater, Endurance. Fram is about 450 metres (0.28 miles) east of the crater Eagle and around 250 metres (820 feet) west of Endurance.

It is named after the famous Norwegian polar exploration vessel the Fram, a ship used by many famous Norwegian explorers such as Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen.

See also

• Geography of Mars
• List of craters on Mars

References

External links

• Official Mars Rovers website
• Martian Concretions Near Fram Crater

Further reading

• Science Magazine Special Issue (Vol. 306, Issue 5702, December 2004): Opportunity at Meridiani Planum. This issue mentions Fram Crater in multiple papers:

• Mineralogy at Meridiani Planum from the Mini-TES Experiment on the Opportunity Rover
• Soils of Eagle Crater and Meridiani Planum at the Opportunity Rover Landing Site
• Localization and Physical Property Experiments Conducted by Opportunity at Meridiani Planum

• Mars exploration rover surface operations: driving opportunity at Meridiani Planum (IEEE Robotics & Automation, 2006)

1. Fram (ship)
2. Fram
3. Timeline of Opportunity
4. List of surface features of Mars visited by Spirit and Opportunity
5. Opportunity (rover)
6. List of craters on Mars: A–G
7. Roald Amundsen
8. Fridtjof Nansen
9. List of geological features on Mercury
10. Arctic Ocean
11. Meridiani Planum
12. Anorthosite
13. James Cook
14. Ernest Shackleton
15. Pan Am Flight 103
16. Matthew Henson
17. Antarctica
18. Northwest Passage
19. Iceland
20. North Pole