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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity set a one-day distance record for martian driving on the rover's 383rd martian day, or sol, which began on Feb. 19, 2005. Opportunity rolled 177.5 meters (...
Record Drive Day, Opportunity Sol 383 (3-D)
Download a PDF of the Mars Exploration Rover Fact Sheet.
Mars Exploration Rover Fact Sheet
A lunar eclipse, a solar eclipse and Mars has a close encounter with a comet.
What's Up for October?
This view from NASA's Opportunity Mars rover shows part of "Marathon Valley" as seen from an overlook north of the valley. It was taken by the rover's Pancam on March 13, 2015. This version is pres...
Mars 'Marathon Valley' Overlook (False Color)
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been working on Mars since landing inside Eagle Crater on Jan. 25, 2004 (Universal Time; evening of Jan. 24, Pacific Standard Time).
Opportunity's Journey, Approaching 10th Anniversary
From left: Dave Lavery, program executive for Solar System Exploration at NASA Headquarters, Dr. Ed Weiler, associate administrator, Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters, Pete Theisinger, (fo...
Spirit: Egress
This image shows a portion of the rim of "Erebus Crater" in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars.
Rim of 'Erebus'
Researchers used the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity to capture this 10-second-exposure view of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring as it passed near Mars on Oct. 1...
Mars Rover Opportunity's View of Passing Comet (Short Exposure)
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to capture the component images for this 360-degree view near the ridgeline of Endeavour Crater's western rim.
Approaching a Target Deposit on Mars Crater Rim
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 i...
Berries' Here, There, Everywhere
These images of a sand "ripple" were acquired by Opportunity using its panoramic camera on sol 644 and its navigation camera on sol 645.
Windblown Ripple 'Scylla'
This image from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the location of a rock called "Pinnacle Island" before it appeared in front of the rover in early Ja...
Where Martian 'Jelly Doughnut' Rock Came From (True Color)
NASA's Opportunity rover captured an image of this rock nicknamed "Jornada del Muerto" while in Perseverance Valley. The wind-carved streaks along its face were very similar to rocks seen at the ri...
Opportunity Discovers 'Dead Man's Journey'
This image is an approximately true color rendering of the slope of "Endurance Crater," which the Opportunity rover explored in 2004.
Three Fresh Exposures in 'Endurance' Layers
The left image shows an extreme close-up of round, blueberry-shaped formations in the martian soil near a part of the rock outcrop at Meridiani Planum called Stone Mountain.
Martian Blueberries
This graphic shows how the energy available to NASA’s Opportunity rover on Mars (in watt-hours) depends on how clear or opaque the atmosphere is (measured in a value called tau). When the tau value...
On Mars, Light Is Energy
Download a PDF of the Mars as Art Booklet.
Mars as Art (2013)
This 360-degree view from a site dubbed "Engineering Flats" shows the rover's shadow.
Spirit's View from 'Engineering Flats'
The component images for this 360-degree panorama were taken by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity after the rover drove about 97 feet (29.5 meters) during the missi...
Opportunity's Tracks Near Crater Rim Ridgeline
The piece of metal with the American flag on it in this image of a NASA rover on Mars is made of aluminum recovered from the site of the World Trade Center towers in the weeks after their destruction.
Interplanetary Memorial to Victims of Sept. 11, 2001
This cylindrical-perspective stereo mosaic was created from navigation camera images acquired by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during Spirit's sol 153, on June 8, 2004. Spirit is pointing to...
Spirit's Shadow, Sol 153 (3-D)
Download a PDF of the Spirit and Opportunity Lithograph.
Spirit and Opportunity Lithograph
As the NASA Opportunity rover team gathered to talk about the last attempts to listen for the rover’s signals from Mars, Ashley Stroupe shared her story about working with the long-lived robotic ge...
Sharing a Rover's Life
As NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity neared the ninth anniversary of its landing on Mars, the rover was working in the 'Matijevic Hill' area seen in this view from Opportunity's panoramic c...
'Matijevic Hill' Panorama for Rover's Ninth Anniversary (False Color)
Researchers used NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity to find a water-related mineral on the ground that had been detected from orbit, and found it in the dark veneer of rocks on the rim of En...
Mineral Detected from Orbit Found in Dark Veneers (Unannotated)
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