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Title    It's Been Exactly One Year Since Opportunity Sent This Final Message Home
Date    Thursday June 13 2019, @04:03AM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the ET-phone-home dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/06/13/0149212

upstart writes:

Submitted via IRC for Bytram

It's been exactly one year since Opportunity sent this final message home

It's been exactly one year since Opportunity sent this final message homeā€”on its 5,111th Martian day

Opportunity's final message home is not much to look at on its own. If you're old enough to remember film cameras, it looks like the final exposure on a roll of film, developed but partly missing. It's a suitable epitaph for Opportunity's mission.

Opportunity captured this image with the left half of its PanCam, or Panoramic Camera. The rover had the solar filter on the camera at the time, which is why the image is so dark. The bottom is cut off because it was unable to transmit the entire image before losing power.

It bears similarity to Opportunity's first image from Mars, also taken with the left Panoramic Camera.

The image was captured on the 5,111th Martian Sol, in the Perseverance Valley. It was captured at about 9:30 a.m. PDT (12:30 p.m. EDT) on June 10, 2018, one year ago today. It transmitted the image up to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at about 9:45, then on to Earth. It arrived here at about 10:05 a.m. PDT (1:05 p.m. EDT), where it was received by one of the stations in NASA's Deep Space Network.


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Links

  1. "upstart" - https://soylentnews.org/~upstart/
  2. "It's been exactly one year since Opportunity sent this final message home" - https://phys.org/news/2019-06-year-opportunity-message-homeon-5111th.html
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=34413

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