Mars Opportunity Defies Expectations

The Mars rover Opportunity landed on the Mars' Meridani Planum on January 25, 2004. Opportunity has traveled 26.2 miles during its nearly 11 years on Mars. To celebrate it's recently completed marathon I figured I'd post some cool images and stats about the rover.

Here's a schematic of Opportunity.

Here is the path it has traveled on Mars, Opportunity set the driving record last year:

In the above image you see it visited Victoria Crater. Here's what Victoria Crater looks like from above:

And here are the images Opportunity sent back of that crater from the ground:

Here's the current view from Opportunity:

What will the future hold for Opportunity? Some have speculated...

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