Images
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Opportunity Legacy Pan
This image is a cropped version of the last 360-degree panorama taken by the Opportunity rover's Panoramic Camera (Pancam) from May 13 through June 10, 2018. The view is presented in false color to make some differences between materials easier to see.
March 12, 2019
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Panorama Above 'Perseverance Valley' on Mars
This June 2017 view from the Pancam on NASA's Opportunity Mars rover shows the area just above "Perseverance Valley" on a large crater's rim. A broad notch in the crest of the rim, at right, might have been a spillway for a fluid that carved the valley, out of sight on the other side of the rim.
July 20, 2017
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Mars Rover Opportunity's View of 'Orion Crater'
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover passed near this small, relatively fresh crater in April 2017, during the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission to the moon. The rover team chose to call it "Orion Crater," after the Apollo 16 lunar module. The rover's Panoramic Camera (Pancam) recorded this view.
June 16, 2017
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Mars Rover View of 'Orion Crater' (Enhanced Color)
The Pancam on NASA's Opportunity Mars rover imaged this small, relatively fresh crater in April 2017, during the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission to the moon. The rover team chose to call it "Orion Crater," after the Apollo 16 lunar module. The scene is presented here in enhanced color.
June 16, 2017
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Opportunity View of 'Private Joseph Field' on Mars
This May 29, 2016, image of a target called "Private Joseph Field" combines images from the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity with enhanced color information from the rover's panoramic camera. The target is on the western rim of Mars' Endeavour Crater.
December 7, 2016
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'Spirit Mound' Beside Martian Crater (Enhanced Color)
This Sept. 21, 2016, scene from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows "Spirit Mound" overlooking the floor of Endeavour Crater. The mound stands near the eastern end of "Bitterroot Valley" on the western rim of the crater, and this view faces eastward.
October 7, 2016
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Panorama of 'Marathon Valley' on Mars (Enhanced Color)
"Marathon Valley" on Mars opens to a view across Endeavour Crater in this enhanced-color version of a scene from the Pancam of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The scene merges many exposures taken during April and May 2016. The foreground shows the fractured texture of the valley.
June 14, 2016
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Opportunity's Devilish View from on High
From its perch high on a ridge, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this image of a Martian dust devil twisting through the valley below.
April 4, 2016
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Steep 'Knudsen Ridge' Along 'Marathon Valley' on Mars (Enhanced Color)
This scene from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity looks upward at "Knudsen Ridge" on the southern edge of "Marathon Valley" from inside the valley.
February 25, 2016
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Martian 'Blueberries'
These small spherules on the Martian surface are near Fram Crater, visited by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity during April 2004. The area shown is 1.2 inches (3 centimeters) across. The view comes from the rover's microscopic imager, with color information added from the panoramic camera.
January 27, 2015
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Lander Trench Dug by Opportunity
On March 20, 2004, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used a wheel to dig a trench revealing subsurface material beside the lander hardware that carried the rover to the surface of Mars 55 Martian days earlier. This scene of the trench combines images from Opportunity's Navcam and Pancam.
January 27, 2015
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High Viewpoint for 11-Year-Old Rover Mission on Mars
This panorama is the view NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity gained from the top of the "Cape Tribulation" segment of the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover reached this point three weeks before the 11th anniversary of its January 2004 landing on Mars.
January 22, 2015
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Opportunity Pausing at a Bright Outcrop
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is continuing its traverse southward on the western rim of Endeavour Crater during the fall of 2014, stopping to investigate targets of scientific interest along way. This view is from Opportunity's front hazard avoidance camera on Nov. 26, 2014.
December 11, 2014
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Clues to Wet History in Texture of a Martian Rock
This close-up view of a target rock called "Last Chance" was acquired by the microscopic imager on the arm of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on March 3, 2004, during the 39th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's work on Mars.
November 18, 2014
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Opportunity's Northward View of 'Wdowiak Ridge' (False Color)
This north-looking vista from NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity shows Wdowiak Ridge, from left foreground to center. This version is presented in false color, which enhances visibility of the rover's wheel tracks at right.
October 16, 2014
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Opportunity's Northward View of 'Wdowiak Ridge'
This vista from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows "Wdowiak Ridge," from left foreground to center, as part of a northward look with the rover's tracks visible at right. Opportunity's panoramic camera (Pancam) recorded the component images for this mosaic on Sept. 17, 2014.
October 16, 2014
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Rover Tracks Along Crater's West Rim, False Color
This Aug. 15, 2014, scene from the Pancam on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity looks back toward part of the west rim of Endeavour Crater that the rover drove along, heading southward, during the summer of 2014. This version is in false color, making the rover's wheel tracks more apparent.
September 9, 2014
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'Lunokhod 2 Crater' on Mars (False Color)
This false-color view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows "Lunokhod 2 Crater," which lies south of Solander Point on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
July 28, 2014
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Endeavour Crater on Mars
This May 14, 2014, scene from the Pancam on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity catches "Pillinger Point," on the western rim of Endeavour Crater, in the foreground and the crater's eastern rim on the horizon. The scene's false color makes differences in surface materials more easily visible.
June 24, 2014
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Endeavour Crater Rim From 'Murray Ridge' on Mars, False Color
This vista of the Endeavour Crater rim was acquired by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera on April 18, 2014, from "Murray Ridge" on the western rim of the crater. It is presented in false color to make differences in surface materials more easily visible.
May 19, 2014
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Clean Solar Panels Gleam in Selfie
A self-portrait of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity taken in late March 2014 (right) shows that much of the dust on the rover's solar arrays has been removed since a similar portrait from January 2014 (left).
April 17, 2014
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Shadow Portrait of NASA Rover Opportunity on Martian Slope
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity caught its own silhouette in this late-afternoon image taken by the rover's rear hazard avoidance camera on March 20, 2014.
March 27, 2014
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Berries' Here, There, Everywhere
This false color image suggests that the plains beyond the small crater where the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity now sits are littered with the same dark grey material found inside the crater in the form of spherules or "blueberries."
December 19, 2013
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Opportunity's view of 'Solander Point'
Opportunity used its panoramic camera (Pancam) to acquire this view of "Solander Poin." The southward-looking scene, presented in false color, shows Solander Point on the center horizon, "Botany Bay" in the foreground, and "Cape Tribulation" in the far background at left.
June 7, 2013
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'Greeley Panorama' from Opportunity's Fifth Martian Winter
This full-circle scene combines 817 images taken by the panoramic camera (Pancam) on Opportunity.
July 5, 2012
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Late Afternoon Shadows at Endeavour Crater
NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity catches its own late-afternoon shadow in this dramatically lit view eastward across Endeavour Crater on Mars.
May 22, 2012
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East Rim of Endeavour Crater
Opportunity used its panoramic camera to record this eastward horizon view on the 2,407th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (October 31, 2010).
April 1, 2012
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Dusty Mars Rover Selfie
This self-portrait from Opportunity shows dust accumulation on the rover's solar panels as the mission approached its fifth Martian winter.
February 17, 2012
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'Intrepid' Crater on Mars
"Intrepid" crater on Mars carries the name of the lunar module of NASA's Apollo 12 mission, which landed on Earth's moon Nov. 19, 1969.
November 18, 2010
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Opportunity Looks Back After Hop to a New Pad
Opportunity used its navigation camera for this northward view of tracks the rover left on a drive from one energy-favorable position on a sand ripple to another.
May 19, 2010
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'Block Island' Meteorite
This view of a rock called "Block Island," the largest meteorite yet found on Mars.
August 6, 2009
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'Lyell' Panorama inside Victoria Crater
During four months prior to the fourth anniversary of its landing on Mars, Opportunity examined rocks inside an alcove called "Duck Bay" in the western portion of Victoria Crater.
January 24, 2008
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D-Star Panorama by Opportunity
This view from Opportunity shows the tracks left by a drive executed with more onboard autonomy than has been used on any other drive by a Mars rover.
January 3, 2008
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Martian Clouds Pass By on a Winter Afternoon
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured a view of wispy afternoon clouds, not unlike fair weather clouds on Earth, passing overhead on the rover's 956th sol, or Martian day (Oct. 2, 2006).
January 29, 2007
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Panorama from 'Cape Verde'
Opportunity captured this vista of "Victoria Crater" from the viewpoint of "Cape Verde," one of the promontories that are part of the scalloped rim of the crater.
January 3, 2007
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View of 'Cape Verde' from 'Cape St. Mary'
As part of its investigation of "Victoria Crater," Opportunity examined a promontory called "Cape Verde" from the vantage point of "Cape St. Mary," the next promontory clockwise around the crater's deeply scalloped rim.
December 13, 2006
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'Victoria Crater' at Meridiani Planum
"Victoria Crater," about 800 meters (one-half mile) in diameter, has been home ground for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity for more 14 of the rover's first 46 months on Mars.
October 6, 2006
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Cobbles in Troughs Between Meridiani Ripples
As Opportunity continued to traverse from "Erebus Crater" toward "Victoria Crater," the rover navigated along exposures of bedrock between large, wind-blown ripples.
May 19, 2006
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Bird's-Eye View of Opportunity at 'Erebus'
This view combines frames taken by the panoramic camera on Opportunity's 652nd through 663rd Martian days, or sols (Nov. 23 to Dec. 5, 2005), at the edge of "Erebus Crater."
January 4, 2006
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On the Rim of 'Erebus'
This is the Opportunity "Erebus Rim" panorama, acquired on sols 652 to 663 (Nov. 23 to Dec. 5, 2005 ), as Opportunity was exploring sand dunes and outcrop rocks in Meridiani Planum.
January 3, 2006
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Rim of 'Erebus'
This image shows a portion of the rim of "Erebus Crater" in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars.
December 5, 2005
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Windblown Ripple 'Scylla'
These images of a sand "ripple" were acquired by Opportunity using its panoramic camera on sol 644 and its navigation camera on sol 645.
November 28, 2005
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Opportunity Examines Cracks and Coatings on Mars Rocks
This false-color panoramic image, taken on martian day, or sol, 561 (Aug. 22, 2005) by the Opportunity rover, shows the nature of the outcrop rocks that the rover is encountering on its southward journey across the martian plains to "Erebus Crater."
September 1, 2005
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You've Made Tracks on My Heart
This panoramic image, dubbed "Rub al Khali," was taken by Opportunity on the plains of Meridiani during the rover's 456th to 464th sols on Mars.
July 28, 2005
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Looking Back at 'Purgatory Dune'
Opportunity's wheels dug more than 10 centimeters (4 inches) deep into the soft, sandy material of a wind-shaped ripple in Mars' Meridiani Planum region during the rover's 446th martian day, or sol (April 26, 2005).
June 21, 2005
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Opportunity Self-Portrait
Opportunity used its panoramic camera to take the images combined into this mosaic view of the rover.
February 18, 2005
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Impressive Impact
This stunning image features the heat shield impact site of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
February 4, 2005
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Dust on Mars: Before and After (Opportunity)
Since landing on Mars a year ago, NASA's pair of six-wheeled geologists have been constantly exposed to martian winds and dust.
January 25, 2005
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Iron Meteorite on Mars
Opportunity found an iron meteorite on Mars, the first meteorite of any type ever identified on another planet.
January 19, 2005
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Opportunity's Heat Shield in Color, Sol 335
This image from Opportunity's panoramic camera features the remains of the heat shield that protected the rover from temperatures of up to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit as it made its way through the martian atmosphere.
January 11, 2005
