Happy Birthday Opportunity

The Opportunity MER is now entering its ninth year of operation, an astounding feat for a machine that was intended to run for only one. The rover has now driven to the top of an outcrop to take sun itself through its fifth Martian winter and try and survive the duration. The picture above is a mosaic of the view from the top of the outcrop called “Greeley Haven” and is in false colour, but still an amazing picture. There is a slightly wider view available from NASA’s image of the day gallery.

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