Tag Archives: Perseverance Valley

Sol 4958, January 3, 2018. Opportunity’s Navcam shot a three-frame composite looking down on the lower half of Perseverance Valley. Rover scientists and mission planners are deciding what part of the channel to explore to determine the valley’s origin. Click … Continue reading →

Sol 4956, January 2, 2018. A blocky rock dubbed Pasaje shows a surface texture heavily eroded by wind-blown dust and sand to the point of looking layered. Yet at the same time, part of it appears pitted, resembling vesicular basalt. … Continue reading →

Opportunity Status Report: Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of “Perseverance Valley” on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned upstream of a fork in the flow channels. The team is collecting imagery to decide which fork, … Continue reading →

Sol 4937, December 13, 2017. As part of its profiling the details of Perseverance Valley, the Pancam took two multi-filtered images of thinly layered outcrops or loose rocks in the valley’s channel. The false-color reconstruction (by Holger Isenberg) shows faint … Continue reading →

Opportunity Status Report, December 13, 2017: … The rover continued with several days of collecting color, stereo, Panoramic Camera (Pancam) panoramas of the surrounding terrain. Then, on Sol 4934 (Dec. 10, 2017), after a sol of recharging, Opportunity drove about 28 … Continue reading →

Sol 4936, December 12, 2017. One day after it drove 8.4 meters (28 feet) downslope, Opportunity turned its Navcam to shoot a series of images (which unavoidably include severe lens flare) that range in direction from south (at left) to … Continue reading →

Opportunity Status Report, December 7, 2017: Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The past week the rover spent conducting an extensive Panoramic Camera (Pancam) color stereo imaging campaign with large Pancam … Continue reading →

NASA’s senior Mars rover, Opportunity, has just passed the shortest-daylight weeks of the long Martian year with its solar panels in encouragingly clean condition for entering a potential dust-storm season in 2018. Before dust season will come the 14th Earth-year … Continue reading →