Blossary – The Opportunity Rover Findings

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The Mars Opportunity Rover is one of the greatest engineering success stories of the 21st century. Originally designed for a 3 month mission and still going 10 years later, it’s performed 40x longer than planned! During this time, Opportunity made many exciting discoveries on Mars. This blossary attempts to collect all the Opportunity findings. You can help to make this blossary complete by adding your own terms.

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Whitewater Lake

Whitewater Lake is an area of bright local outcrops along an eroded segment of a vast crater named Endeavour that spans some 22 kilometers (14 miles) in diameter. The outcrops contain rocks that are ...

Payson

Located on the western edge of the Erebus Crater on Mars, Payson is the outcrop created by a crater-forming impact event that exposed layered rocks in the crater wall, measuring about 1 meters (3.3 ...

Heat Shield Rock

Heat Shield Rock is a meteorite located near the debris of Opportunity's heat shield in Meridiani Planum, a cratered flatland on Mars where the Opportunity rover first landed in 2004. This ...

Marquette Island

Marquette Island is a rock located in the barren plain between Victoria Crater and Endeavour Crater on Mars that was initially spotted by the Opportunity rover on November 5, 2009. First called "Sore ...

Pinnacle Island

A strange "jelly doughnut" like rock on Mars that was spotted by the Opportunity rover on Jan. 8, 2014 that was not previously there four days earlier. The unexpected appearance of the ...