Overview of the Mars surface from the Opportunity spacecraft

The panorama of Mars from the "Greeley Haven" view is considered the best and clearest picture of the surface of the Red planet.

During the four-month "Greeley Haven" site survey, Pancam camera equipment mounted on NASA's Opportunity Mars probe recorded all 817 photos.

The Pancam camera on the exploration vessel Opportunity recorded beautiful images of Mars on the 2,811th day of Mars when the ship performed the mission of exploring the surface of the Red planet on December 21, 2011 and the 2,947th day of Mars is on May 8, 2012.

The Opportunity vessel takes the "Greeley Haven" area survey area - where solar panels are mounted on the ship towards the Sun, lying low under the northern sky during the spring of the hemisphere male.

The land rising above the Martian surface was named "Greeley Haven" after the scientist Ronald Greeley (1939-2011) - a veteran lecturer for generations of scientists at Arizona State University. .

"Greeley Haven" is located near the northern peak of the Cape York meteorite in the western belt of the giant crater Endeavor.

The photo took the northern area as the center. The south is on the horizontal line at the back. The far left hand at the end of the photo is Rich Morris Hill.

The area that emerges from the surface of the Cape York meteorite - Rich Morris is named after aerospace engineer and musician - John R. "Rich" Morris (1973-2011). Morris is a member of the Mars probe production team and director of mission at NASA's Jet Engine Laboratory in Pasadena.

The layers of sediment dust were swept to the left by the wind, piling up on Greeley Haven. Opportunity wheel rolling traces extend to the south. Some car markings in some locations look dark, covered by a thin, light dust layer.

Other light dust deposits are easily observed in the north, northeast, and east areas of Greeley Haven. The sediment is located in the center of the image dubbed the "North Pole". The Opportunity probe went through the area and conducted a survey in May 2012 as a typical example of wind-blown dust layers.

The area inside the giant crater Endeavor can be seen from the right-hand side of the picture stretching to the northeast and east of Cape York Cape. Endeavor crater has a diameter of up to 22km.

Solar panels and many other devices on board explore Opportunity, which is covered by sediment dust during the mission. The Opportunity vessel has been working on Mars since January 2004.

During the four months of the regional survey Greeley Haven, vessel Opportunity conducted radio observations to better understand the operation of Mars's tilting axis, thereby revealing the internal structure.

In addition, Opportunity also studies the constituent compounds and the structure of an area that rises above the crater rim, controls changes in the atmosphere and surface, and surrounding areas.

The panoramic view of Mars is made up of photographs taken at wavelengths of 753 nanometers (near infrared rays), 535 nanometers (blue light) and 432 nanometers (purple light). They are colored in blue and red to help viewers differentiate between the materials on Mars.