January 2024 - Spirit Knocked, Opportunity Rocked: 20 Years of Rovers on Mars
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 through the camera's 600-, 530- and 480-nanometer filters during Opportunity's 322nd and 323rd martian days, or sols (Dec. 19 and 20, 2004).
Spirit Knocked, Opportunity Rocked: 20 Years of Rovers on Mars
Jan. 25
Time: 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST; 0300 UTC)
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the landing of Spirit and Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rovers. We will delve into the stories of these incredible robots, with a look at how the exploration of Mars and the understanding of ourselves has changed because of the twin rovers.
Speaker(s):
John Callas, Former MER Project Manager, NASA/JPL
Abigail Fraeman, Former MER Deputy Project Scientist, NASA/JPL
Host:
Nikki Wyrick, Office of Communications and Education, NASA/JPL
Co-Host:
Sarah Marcotte, Mars Public Engagement, NASA/JPL