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December 05, 2002
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This image is a cropped version of the last 360-degree panorama taken by the Opportunity rover's Panoramic Camera (Pancam) from May 13 through June 10, 2018. The view is presented in false color to...
Opportunity Legacy Pan
This series of images, taken by the Opportunity rover in July 2007, shows a darkening sky as a huge regional dust storm covered both Opportunity and her twin rover, Spirit.
A Darkened Mars Sky
This is one of the first images beamed back to Earth shortly after the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit landed on the red planet.
First Look at Spirit at Landing Site
Download a PDF of the Mars Exploration Rover Fact Sheet.
Mars Exploration Rover Fact Sheet
Team members reflect on Spirit's six-years of roving Mars.
Spirit's Triumphs on Mars
A rock with a white edge and a red center reminds us of a jelly donut in a box from the local donut shop in this image taken by Opportunity on February 4, 2014. Named “pinnacle Island” by Opportun...
A Sweet Find
In February 2015, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is approaching a cumulative driving distance on Mars equal to the length of a marathon race. This map shows the rover's position relative...
Opportunity Rover Nears Mars Marathon Feat (Labeled)
While driving eastward toward the northwestern flank of "McCool Hill," Spirit's wheels churned up the largest amount of bright soil discovered to that point in the mission. This image from Spirit's...
Bright Soil Near 'McCool'
This image from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's rear hazard identification camera shows the rover's hind view of the lander platform, its nest for the past 12 sols, or martian days. The rover i...
Spirit Looks Back (3-D)
An artist's concept portrays a NASA Mars Exploration Rover on the surface of Mars.
Mars Exploration Rovers Artist's Concept
As NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity creeps farther into "Endurance Crater," the dune field on the crater floor appears even more dramatic
Endurance Crater's Dazzling Dunes
On March 20, 2004, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used a wheel to dig a trench revealing subsurface material beside the lander hardware that carried the rover to the surface of Mars 55 M...
Lander Trench Dug by Opportunity
This artist's rendering depicts NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. The twin rovers were launched in 2003 and arrived on Mars in January 2004.
Mars Exploration Rovers: Spirit & Opportunity - Artist's Concept
NASA'S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau where Sprit spent the closing months of 2007.
Spirit's West Valley Panorama
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
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has been making tracks on Mars for seven months now, well beyond its original 90-day mission. The rover traveled more than 3 kilometers (2 miles) to reach the "...
Making Tracks on Mars (3-D)
One of two Mars Exploration Rovers sits inside its cruise stage waitingto undergo environmental testing at NASA's Jet PropulsionLaboratory.
Mars Exploration Rover
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.
Opportunity's Approach to 'Cape Tribulation' Summit
Dr. Ed Weiler, associate administrator, Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters and Mars Exploration Program manager, Dr. Firouz Naderi (right) are delighted with the news of Opportunity's safe...
Opportunity: Landing
This is a zoomed in view on Spirit 's "Lookout" panorama on the drive up to the summit "Husband Hills."
Close-Up of 'Lookout' Panorama
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this stereo view of the rover's surroundings on the 958th sol, or Martian day, of its surface m...
Opportunity's View, Sol 958 (Stereo)
This image taken at Meridiani Planum, Mars, by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rover's Moessbauer spectrometer (circular device in center), located on its i...
Moessbauer on Mars
The aeroshell protects the rover from fiery temperatures as it enters the Martian atmosphere in January, 2004.
Mars Exploration Rovers: Entering the Mars atmosphere
This June 2017 view from the Pancam on NASA's Opportunity Mars rover shows the area just above "Perseverance Valley" on a large crater's rim. A broad notch in the crest of the rim, at right, mig...
Panorama Above 'Perseverance Valley' on Mars
John Callas, project manager for NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers mission, makes the call ending the last formal session via NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) for the Opportunity rover at Mars on Feb. ...
Last Call to Opportunity
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