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Mars: Opportunity self-portrait

author: Nasa/JPL/Cornell/Novapix

reference: a-mar08-50116

Image Size 300 DPI: 67 * 61 cm

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).

Keywords for this photo:

2004 - ASTRONOMY - DUST - MARS - MARS EXPLORATION ROVER - MARTIAN SURFACE - MERIDIANI PLANUM - OPPORTUNITY - PLANET - POSTER - ROVER - SOIL - SOLAR PANEL -