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Curiosity rover mission updates: two new posts by Deborah Padgett and Lucy Thompson

☑️ Sols 4575-4576: Perfect Parking Spot https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4575-4576-perfect-parking-spot/
☑️ Sols 4577-4579: Watch the Skies https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4577-4579-watch-the-skies/

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2004 February 4

Opportunity's Horizon
* Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, JPL, NASA
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-exploration-rovers-spirit-and-opportunity/
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html

Explanation:
Remarkably, the Opportunity Mars rover lies in a small martian impact crater about 3 meters deep and 22 meters wide. For 360 degrees, Opportunity's horizon stretches to the right in this color mosaic image from the rover's panoramic camera. Notable in this view of the generally dark, smooth terrain are surface imprints left by the lander's airbags and an outcropping of light-colored, layered rock about 8 meters away toward the northwest. Though they look imposing, the rocks in the tantalizing outcrop are only a few centimeters high and will be dwarfed by the cart-sized rover itself during future close-up investigations. Opportunity has now rolled off its lander and, along with the restored Spirit rover, is directly exploring the martian surface.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040126.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040114.html

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040204.html

#space #mars #rover #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA

2004 February 4

Opportunity's Horizon
* Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, JPL, NASA

Explanation:
Remarkably, the Opportunity Mars rover lies in a small martian impact crater about 3 meters deep and 22 meters wide. For 360 degrees, Opportunity's horizon stretches to the right in this new color mosaic image from the rover's panoramic camera. Notable in this view of the generally dark, smooth terrain are surface imprints left by the lander's airbags and an outcropping of light-colored, layered rock about 8 meters away toward the northwest. Though they look imposing, the rocks in the tantalizing outcrop are only a few centimeters high and will be dwarfed by the cart-sized rover itself during future close-up investigations. Opportunity has now rolled off its lander and, along with the restored Spirit rover, is directly exploring the martian surface.

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A 3D model of the twin Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity.
NASA Visualization Technology Applications and Development (VTAD)

#space #mars #rover #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #NASA

Mars Exploration Rovers: Spirit and Opportunity
* Occurred 6 years ago

NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity rovers were identical twin robots that helped rewrite our understanding of the early history of Mars.

Landing Sites

The rovers were targeted to land at sites on opposite sides of Mars that looked as though they were affected by liquid water in the past. Spirit landed at Gusev Crater, a possible former lake in a giant impact crater. Opportunity landed at Meridiani Planum, a place where mineral deposits suggested that Mars had a wet history.

Mars Exploration Rovers In Depth

Rover Basics:
Each robotic explorer sent to the Red Planet has its own unique capabilities driven by science. Many attributes of a rover take on human-like features, such as “heads,” and “bodies.”
https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-science/programs/mars-exploration/rover-basics/

Objectives:
New knowledge from the twin rovers uniquely contributed to meeting the four overarching goals of the Mars Exploration Program, while complementing data gathered through other Mars missions.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-exploration-rovers-spirit-and-opportunity/science-objectives/

Science:
By studying the rock record, Spirit and Opportunity confirmed that water was long standing on the surface of Mars in ancient times.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-exploration-rovers-spirit-and-opportunity/science-highlights/

Resources:
Visit the one-stop-shop for all Spirit and Opportunity multimedia.
https://science.nasa.gov/mars/resources/?search=spirit+opportunity

This infographic highlights NASA’s twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) Spirit and Opportunity. The rovers landed on the Red Planet in 2004, in search of answers about the history of water on Mars. Spirit concluded its mishttps://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-exploration-rovers-spirit-and-opportunity/sion in 2010. Opportunity last communicated with Earth on June 10, 2018, as a planet-wide dust storm blanketed the solar-powered rover's location on Mars.

Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-exploration-rovers-spirit-and-opportunity/

#space #mars #rover #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #NASA

This infographic highlights NASA’s twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) Spirit and Opportunity. The rovers landed on the Red Planet in 2004, in search of answers about the history of water on Mars. Spirit concluded its mission in 2010. Opportunity last communicated with Earth on June 10, 2018, as a planet-wide dust storm blanketed the solar-powered rover's location on Mars.

Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

2025 June 22

A Berry Bowl of Martian Spherules
* Image Credit: NASA, JPL, Curiosity Rover
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://www.nasa.gov/

Explanation:
How were these unusual Martian spherules created? Thousands of unusual gray spherules made of iron and rock and dubbed blueberries were found embedded in and surrounding rocks near the landing site of the robot Opportunity rover on Mars in 2004. To help investigate their origin, Opportunity found a surface dubbed the Berry Bowl with an indentation that was rich in the Martian orbs. The Berry Bowl is pictured here, imaged during rover's 48th Martian day. The average size of a Martian blueberry rock is only about 4 millimeters across. By analyzing a circular patch in the rock surface to the left of the densest patch of spherules, Opportunity obtained data showing that the underlying rock has a much different composition than the hematite rich blueberries. This information contributes to the growing consensus that these small, strange, gray orbs were slowly deposited from a bath of dirty water.
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05634
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity/location-map/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017Icar..289..144W/abstract

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040303.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040210.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040216.html
https://science.nasa.gov/resource/martian-blueberries-2/
Martian_spherules

https://periodic.lanl.gov/26.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematite

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250622.html

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