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Tag Archives: Perseverance Valley
Opportunity report, Sol 5013, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
March 5, 2018: Opportunity Logs 5000th Day, Snaps Selfie, and Roves On: The Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission has made so many scientific discoveries and established so many records so consistently during the last 14 years that Opportunity’s achievements have … Continue reading
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Opportunity: Parked at Robledo
Sol 5016, March 5, 2018. After a drive downslope of 3.9 meters (about 13 feet), Opportunity is parked at a large exposure of broken rock dubbed Robledo. It is the light-colored area in the center of the three-frame Navcam composite … Continue reading
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Opportunity: Taking the southern perspective
Sol 5013, March 2, 2018. Three Navcam frames pick up the view to the south, across the low outcrops of Perseverance Valley, where the rover is currently parked. Click the image to enlarge it. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission … Continue reading
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Opportunity Field Report, March 2, 2018
Sol 5013, March 2, 2018: Rover Field Report by Larry Crumpler, MER Science Team & New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science: During the last week of February, 2018, on Sol 4999 since landing on Mars (14 years ago), … Continue reading
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Opportunity: Context for a crushed (?) rock
Sols 5003 and 5011, February 19 and 27, 2018. The view above by the Navcam provides context for a small area where it appears a rock was crushed by the rover wheels. This area was imaged earlier by Pancam (false-color … Continue reading
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Opportunity: Microscopic Imager shoots a rover selfie to commemorate Sol 5000
Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist R. Aileen Yingst was in the driver’s seat Feb. 15 directing the science activities for NASA’s Opportunity Rover as it spent its 5,000th day exploring the Martian surface. Yingst served as Science Operations Working Group … Continue reading
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Opportunity: Wheel tracks in false color
Sol 5003, February 19, 2018. After driving Opportunity upslope and away from Nueva Vizcaya, rover controllers turned the Pancam back on the rover’s tracks (above). The tracks’ tint in this false-color view (by Holger Isenberg) shows that disturbing the surface … Continue reading
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5,000 days on Mars
The Sun will rise on NASA’s solar-powered Mars rover Opportunity for the 5,000th time on Saturday, sending rays of energy to a golf-cart-size robotic field geologist that continues to provide revelations about the Red Planet. “Five thousand sols after the … Continue reading
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Opportunity: ‘Rock stripes’ and other surprises
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity keeps providing surprises about the Red Planet, most recently with observations of possible “rock stripes.” The ground texture seen in recent images from the rover resembles a smudged version of very distinctive stone stripes on … Continue reading
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Opportunity: Driving south-southwest
Sol 4997, February 13, 2018. After studying the rock Nueva Vizcaya, Opportunity drove 15 meters (about 50 feet) to the south-southwest, as mission planners head for the next area of interest in Perseverance Valley. Above is the Navcam view downslope … Continue reading
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