11 years of traveling the rover Opportunity 8 minutes: Video from NASA

Time is running out, and Opportunity is working on Mars for 11 years! During this time, the rover was a marathon, and continues to work. Of course, now published more news about Curiosity, what about Opportunity, but it is impossible to forget the rover - the results of its work to clarify many things concerning the scientists Mars.

Now, in order to recall the main achievements of the rover, NASA released the 8-minute video, which shows nearly all the action from the rover to Mars arrival of the current day. The images on the left to get a camera hazcam, and the rights of the - this map of the route the rover.

The video shows many interesting moments, including a visit to the rover landing site, the study discarded heat shield, sand trap, where Opportunity spent two months, and so on.



Of course, in 11 years of work on the Red Planet rover with a lot of things happened. Now a seasoned veteran looks like this:




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But it looked like immediately after getting the rover to Mars


Incidentally, in March of this year, Opportunity has become a machine which broke the record of Soviet Lunokhod brand "Lunokhod-2". It is clear that the distance traveled - this is not an end in itself, otherwise the operators would have a much more rapid passage of this range. The main task was to find the rover evidence of past liquid water, which, as we know - one of the basic conditions for the existence of life in the current sense of the word in modern science.

Opportunity team is proud to have been able to hold the rover through all the trials and difficulties trying to obtain the necessary information to modern science "first device located on another planet, could cover the distance in excess of the marathon," - says John Callas, project leader in the Opportunity Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif.

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