images

Mars: Opportunity self-portrait

by

Nasa/JPL/Cornell/Novapix

Reference

a-mar08-50116

Date

2006-10-19

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its panoramic camera to take the images combined into this mosaic view of the rover. The downward-looking view omits the mast on which the camera is mounted. It shows Opportunity's solar panels to be relatively dust-free. The images were taken during Opportunity's 322nd and 323rd martian days, or sols (Dec. 19 and 20, 2004).