15 years of Mars exploration of Opportunity vessel

In 15 years of exploring Mars, the US Aeronautics and Space Agency has recorded hundreds of thousands of photos, moving through dozens of kilometers of terrain.

Opportunity ship was launched into space on July 7, 2003 at launch Launch Complex 17-B in the state of Floria (USA).According to The Atlantic magazine, Opportunity landed on a small crater in Mars's Meridiani valley on January 25, 2004.

Sunset on Mars was taken by Opportunity vessel after landing on Red Planet for 20 days.Initially, Opportunity expects to carry out a mission to explore Mars only for 90 days but after 12 years, it still works stably.

The Opportunity vessel uses a stone cutting tool to dig holes on the "Campbell" target in the MacKenzie rock area at the crater Endeavor.The photo was taken on July 30, 2004.

The nearly one meter high sand dunes on Mars were taken on August 6, 2004.In the past 144 months, Opportunity ships captured more than 200,000 images of Martian surfaces, moving a total of 42.65km for the study of craters, meteor craters, strange shapes of rocks. and especially looking for evidence of past water activity.

The panoramic image shows the Payson cliff located on the western edge of the Erebus volcano taken on February 26, 2006.

Victoria crater on Mars was taken in October 2006.

Block Island Rock - the largest meteorite found on Mars about 60cm in diameter was taken in October 2009.Analysis of the "Block Island" composition shows that it contains lots of iron and nickel.

The first dust storm was observed on Mars on July 15, 2010.

The Opportunity wheel taxiway has a length of about 15.8m left on the surface of the Martian taken on April 29, 2007, behind it is the Victoria crater area.

Cape St. CliffsMary is about 15m high and lies along the western edge of Victoria Crater, taken on June 23, 2007.NASA scientists identified the eroded scars on the cliff as a result of large sand dunes that swept across the area.

The Opportunity ship has its own shadow taken at late afternoon on March 9, 2012 at the eastern edge of the volcano Endeavor.

The shallow crater "Spirit of St. Louis" is about 24m across and about 34m long has a darker color than the surrounding terrain taken at the end of March 2015.