When NASA announced that the Opportunity rover stopped working on Mars, the space community mourned the loss of a very tough exploratory machine.
But the Opportunity rover, which used to record its entire route, managed to send one last panorama before shutting down. NASA released this one picture on Tuesday, showing Opportunity's final position on the edge of Endeavor Crater.
The image is composite and consists of 354 pictures that Opportunity sent between May 13 and June 10 using the Pancam instrument.
Below is a section of the panorama image:
NASA lost contact with the rover on 10 June during a major planetary storm.
In the panoramic image compiled by NASA, you can see that the lower left corner of the image is black and white because the storm has risen before Opportunity has had the opportunity to use its color filters in this section.
Η dark image was the final transmission received by NASA from the robot.
“This final panorama showcases what made Opportunity so remarkable Mission of exploration", he stated in a communication John Callas, director of the Opportunity project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.
Right and left is the bottom of the Perseverance cavity while the top of the Endeavor crater remains virgin and unexplored, waiting for visits from future explorers.
Callas also pointed out that the tracks of the rover wheels are shown in the panorama.
See the image at high resolution
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia-22908-legacypan-annotated-nasa2.jpg
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