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NASA Mars Opportunity and Its Mother Ship

This image mosaic captured by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's navigation camera shows the rover and the now-empty lander that carried it 283 million miles to Meridiani Planum, Mars. Engineers received confirmation that Opportunity's six wheels rolled off the lander and onto martian soil at 3:02 a.m. PST, January 31, 2004, on the seventh martian day, or sol, of the mission. The rover, seen at the bottom of the image, is approximately 1 meter (3 feet) in front of the lander, facing north.

NASA Opportunity's As Far as Opportunity's Eye Can See

Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell.

 

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