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6th Year Anniversary Graphic

December 31, 2009

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Color View From Orbit Showing Opportunity in 'Botany Bay' (Annotated)
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Opportunity's Tracks Near Crater Rim Ridgeline (Stereo)
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'McMurdo' Panorama from Spirit's 'Winter Haven' (Color Stereo)
Technicians maneuver the aeroshell for Mars Exploration Rover 2 onto a workstand in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility.
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Mars Exploration Rover: Opening aeroshell
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this view of the summit of "Cape Tribulation," on the western rim of Endeavour Crater on the day before the rover drove to the top.
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this view of the summit of "Cape Tribulation," on the western rim of Endeavour Crater on the day before the rover drove to the top. This crest is about 440 feet higher in elevation than the plain surrounding the crater.
Opportunity's Approach to 'Cape Tribulation' Summit
These two thumbnail images, with the ghostly dot of a faint Sun near the middle of each, are the last images NASA's Opportunity rover took on Mars.
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Last Images Opportunity Took
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Opportunity used its panoramic camera to take the images combined into this mosaic view of the rover.
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Opportunity Self-Portrait
If a human with perfect vision donned a spacesuit and stepped onto the martian surface, the view would be as clear as this sweeping panorama taken by Spirit.
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'Everest' Panorama; 20-20 Vision
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.
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D-Star Panorama by Opportunity
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Record Drive Day, Opportunity Sol 383 (3-D)
Rover 1 sits atop the deployed lander with its solar arrays and wheels stowed.
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Mars Exploration Rovers: Rover 1 and lander
These side-by-side images were taken by the Pan Camera (Pancam) on NASA's Opportunity rover. They're actually the same image; the left version is how the image originally came down, due to data dro...
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These side-by-side images were taken by the Pan Camera on the Opportunity rover. They're actually the same image; the left version is how the image originally came down, due to data dropouts. The right shows the same image after processing all the data.
Artistic Pancam Frame
NASA's twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers, will launch toward Mars in 2003 in search of answers about the history of water on Mars.
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Mars Exploration Rovers Artist's Concept 2
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.
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera on May 10, 2014, to capture this 360-degree view near the ridgeline of Endeavour Crater's western rim. The center is southeastward. Rocks on the slope to the right of center are in an outcrop area targeted for the rover to study.
Approaching a Target Deposit on Mars Crater Rim
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Autonomous Hazard Checks Leave Patterned Rover Tracks on Mars (Stereo)
This scene from NASA's Mars rover Opportunity shows "Wharton Ridge," which forms part of the southern wall of "Marathon Valley" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The ridge's name honors the memory of...
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This scene from NASA's Mars rover Opportunity shows "Wharton Ridge," which forms part of the southern wall of "Marathon Valley" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The ridge's name honors the memory of astrobiologist Robert A. Wharton (1951-2012). The scene is presented in approximately true color.
Mars Rover Opportunity's Panorama of 'Wharton Ridge'
Details of the Meridiani Planum designated landing site are added with topographic information and higher-resolution imaging from instruments on the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey orbiters.
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Opportunity's Landing Site: Meridiani-overlays
Spirit acquired this false-color image after using the rock abrasion tool to brush the surfaces of rock targets informally named "Stars" (left) and "Crawfords" (right). Small streaks of dust extend...
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Spirit acquired this false-color image after using the rock abrasion tool to brush the surfaces of rock targets informally named "Stars" (left) and "Crawfords" (right). Small streaks of dust extend for several centimeters behind the small rock chips and pebbles in the dusty, red soils. Because the rover was looking southwest when this image was taken, the wind streaks indicate that the dominant wind direction was from the southeast.
Rock Outcrop at 'Home Plate'
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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.
Endeavour Crater Rim From 'Murray Ridge' on Mars, False Color

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