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PIA05841: Opportunity at Time of Full Mission Success
Animation software used by engineers for planning rover drives portrays the location of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on April 26, 2004, at the successful completion of 90 sols of operating on Mars.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Panoramic Camera 
 Product Size:  749 x 583 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Ames Research Center 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA05841.tif (161 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA05841.jpg (112.5 kB)  

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Animation software used by engineers for planning rover drives portrays the location of the NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on April 26, 2004, at the successful completion of 90 sols of operating on Mars, the amount of time set in advance for the rover's primary mission. The scene is from the panoramic camera, with the crater dubbed "Endurance" on the horizon, still a few days' drives away.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Ames

Image Addition Date:
2004-04-29