{"id":2417,"date":"2019-03-13T20:19:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/energyholding.world\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2019-04-08T17:08:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T14:08:40","slug":"opportunitys-parting-shot-was-a-beautiful-panorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/energyholding.world\/?p=2417","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity’s Parting Shot Was a Beautiful Panorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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This image is a cropped version of the last 360-degree panorama taken by the Opportunity rover’s Panoramic Camera (Pancam) from May 13 through June 10, 2018. The view is presented in false color to make some differences between materials easier to see.
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\nOver 29 days last spring, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity \ndocumented this 360-degree panorama from multiple images taken at what \nwould become its final resting spot in Perseverance Valley. Located on \nthe inner slope of the western rim of Endurance Crater, Perseverance \nValley is a system of shallow troughs descending eastward about the \nlength of two football fields from the crest of Endeavor’s rim to its \nfloor.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

«This final panorama embodies what made our Opportunity rover such a \nremarkable mission of exploration and discovery,» said Opportunity \nproject manager John Callas of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in \nPasadena, California. «To the right of center you can see the rim of \nEndeavor Crater rising in the distance. Just to the left of that, rover \ntracks begin their descent from over the horizon and weave their way \ndown to geologic features that our scientists wanted to examine up \nclose. And to the far right and left are the bottom of Perseverance \nValley and the floor of Endeavour crater, pristine and unexplored, \nwaiting for visits from future explorers.»<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trailblazing mission ended after nearly 15 years of exploring the\n surface of Mars, but its legacy will live on. Opportunity’s scientific \ndiscoveries contributed to our unprecedented understanding of the \nplanet’s geology and environment, laying the groundwork for future \nrobotic and human missions to the Red Planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The panorama is composed of 354 individual images provided by the \nrover’s Panoramic Camera (Pancam) from May 13 through June 10, or sols \n(Martian days) 5,084 through 5,111. This view combines images taken \nthrough three different Pancam filters. The filters admit light centered\n on wavelengths of 753 nanometers (near-infrared), 535 nanometers \n(green) and 432 nanometers (violet).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A few frames (bottom left) remain black and white, as the \nsolar-powered rover did not have the time to record those locations \nusing the green and violet filters before a severe Mars-wide dust storm<\/a> swept in on June 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gallery includes the last images Opportunity obtained during its \nmission (black-and-white thumbnail images from the Pancam that were used\n to determine how opaque the sky was on its last day) and also the last \npiece of data the rover transmitted (a «noisy,» incomplete full-frame \nimage of a darkened sky).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After eight months of effort and sending more than a thousand \ncommands in an attempt to restore contact with the rover, NASA declared \nOpportunity’s mission complete on Feb. 13, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, managed the Mars Exploration Rover Project for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over 29 days last spring, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity documented this 360-degree panorama from multiple images taken at what would become its final resting spot in Perseverance Valley. Located on the inner slope of the western rim of Endurance Crater, Perseverance Valley is a system of shallow troughs descending eastward about the length of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/energyholding.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/energyholding.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/energyholding.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/energyholding.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/energyholding.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/energyholding.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2874,"href":"http:\/\/energyholding.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions\/2874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/energyholding.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/energyholding.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/energyholding.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}