NASA Just Released One Final Panorama From the Mars Opportunity Rover

D-brief
By Jake Parks
Mar 14, 2019 1:00 PMDec 13, 2019 3:07 PM
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This small section of the Opportunity rover's final panorama highlights the different types of rocks found on Mars. To the left are tabular rocks, which tend to be thin and flat, and to the right are pitted rocks, which have compositions unlike any rocks previously seen during the mission. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/ASU)

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Last June, space exploration enthusiasts from across the world collectively held their breath as a global dust storm enveloped Mars. They did so not because our view of the Red Planet’s surface was obscured, but instead because a go-kart-sized rover named Opportunity, which had been roaming the Red Planet for nearly 15 years, fell silent as the storm intensified. After eight months of fruitless attempts to resurrect “Oppy,” which was only slated for a mission lasting 90 days, on February 13, NASA scientists finally declared: “Mission complete.”

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