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December 31, 2009
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Results from Opportunity and Curiosity show Mars could have supported life.
Rover Fist Bump
NASA's Mars rovers keep getting bigger. This photo provides a comparison of the wheel sizes for three generations of them.
Rover Wheel Sizes (Isometric)
This image taken by the panoramic camera onboard Opportunity shows the rover's now-empty lander, the Challenger Memorial Station, at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
Opportunity's Empty Nest
This map updates progress that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is making toward reaching a driving distance equivalent to a marathon footrace. It indicates the rover's position on March 2...
Rover's Progress Toward Mars Marathon, Sol 3966
This graph compares the elemental composition of typical soils at three landing regions on Mars.
Inspecting Soils Across Mars
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its panoramic camera (Pancam) to capture this false-color panorama of the "Matijevic Hill" area on the "Cape York" segment of the western rim of Endea...
Diverse Outcrops on 'Matijevic Hill'
This full-circle panorama shows the terrain around the NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity during the 3,071st Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (Sept. 13, 2012).
Opportunity's Surroundings on Sol 3071, on 'Whitewater Lake' Outcrop
This self-portrait of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity comes courtesy of the Sun and the rover's front hazard-avoidance camera.
Opportunity Catches its Shadow
NASA Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen addressed the Opportunity rover team inside Mission Control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, a few hours before...
Addressing the Opportunity Team
This full-circle, stereo panorama shows the terrain around the NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity during the 3,071st Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (Sept. 13, 2012).
Opportunity's Surroundings on Sol 3071, Stereo View
This view from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera is a false-color composite rendering of the first seven holes that the rover's rock abrasion tool dug on the inner slope of ...
False-Color View of a 'Rat' Hole Trail
This image is a cropped version of the last 360-degree panorama taken by the Opportunity rover's Pancam from May 13 through June 10, 2018. The panorama appears in 3D when seen through blue-red glas...
Opportunity Legacy Pan (Stereo)
Researchers used the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity to capture this view of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring as it passed near Mars on Oct. 19, 2014.
Mars Rover Opportunity's View of Passing Comet
This image shows rocky debris and dust, which planetary scientists call "regolith" or "soil," that has been churned up by the rover wheels.
Churned-Up Rocky Debris and Dust
This view taken by Spirit show's the "Columbia Hills" up ahead.
Heading for the Hills
"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 expos...
Mars Rover Opportunity's Panorama of 'Marathon Valley' (Enhanced Color)
See how Mars Exploration Rover team members take on the demands of driving a rover millions of miles away from Earth.
Opportunity: 10 Years on Mars - Operating a Rover
The panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured a sweeping image of "Burns Cliff" after driving right to the base of this southeastern portion of the inner wall of "Endur...
'Burns Cliff' in Color Stereo
This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity perched on the edge of "Concepción" crater in Meridiani Planum, Mars.
Opportunity at 'Concepción' Crater, Seen from Orbit
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 r...
'Pillinger Point' Overlooking Endeavour Crater on Mars (False Color)
Opportunity found an iron meteorite on Mars, the first meteorite of any type ever identified on another planet.
Iron Meteorite on Mars
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit obtained this stereo panorama of the surrounding Martian terrain in Gusev Crater from two positions about 10 meters (33 feet) apart. This is much greater separa...
Sweeping View of the "Columbia Hills" and Gusev Crater (3-D)
This color image taken by the panoramic camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the part of the rock outcrop dubbed Stone Mountain at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
Stone Mountain
The boulder-studded ridge in this scene recorded by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is "McClure-Beverlin Escarpment," informally named for Jack Beverlin and Bill McClure, engineers who on...
Opportunity's Southward View of 'McClure-Beverlin Escarpment' on Mars (False Color)
Mars Exploration Rover parachute deployment testing
Parachute Test
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