I'm not so sure Opportunity couldn't get in and out. If they went back and forth in a switchback motion on the most gentle slope, say on the right side, the angles probably wouldn't be any worse than getting out of Eagle. Thanks so much for the picture though. I too am curious where you got the raw files for that picture. JPL's about 2 or 3 SOL's behind lately.
I'm hoping the next rover we send has some sort of camera/sensor-on-a-cable thing they can lower over the side of a crater wall or cliff to get up close to strata like we're seeing here. Maybe a good test of that would be Valle Marineris (sp?). Drop the spacecraft up on the rim somewhere, let it venture to the edge, get us some wonderful postcard shots for PR, and lower the sensors over the side.
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