Check out this outstanding photo of NASA ’s intrepid Opportunity rover . The Agency ’s HiRISE tv camera caught a rarefied glimpse of the space vehicle on Valentine ’s Clarence Shepard Day Jr. while orbiting high up above the “ Murray Ridge ” section of the western rim of Mars ’ Endeavour Crater . Can you spot it ?
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Photo Credit : NASA / JPL - Caltech / Univ . of Arizona ; Caption Credit : NASA| The violent arrow points to chance at the meat of the icon . Blue arrow point to tracks leave by the rover since it enrol the area determine here , in October 2013 . The scene covers a patch of priming coat about one - twenty-five percent knot ( about 400 meters ) astray . North is toward the top .
The bird of passage does n’t feature very conspicuously in the photograph – but then , this exposure was taken from quad , so just sit and mull that over for a bit . NASA ’s HiRISE – the most potent camera we ’ve ever institutionalise to another satellite – does n’t capture photos of planetside rovers very often , and even when it does they can be punishing to fleck . When I spoke with HiRISE Principle Investigator Alfred McEwen back in January , 2012 , the camera had been used to bewitch a photo of a space vehicle on its line of descent to the Red Planet ’s surface ( a exploit it repeated in 2012 during Curiosity ’s landing ) , but , if I recall correctly , nobody on the HiRISE team had yet managed undercover agent a rover in any of the almost 22,000 photos capture by the tv camera up to that compass point .
https://gizmodo.com/this-is-hirise-the-most-powerful-camera-weve-ever-sent-5875075
https://gizmodo.com/a-photograph-of-curiosity-during-landing-has-been-leake-5932151
The team has capture a few picture of the satellite ’s machinelike visitors since then , however , includingthis one of chance on July 8 , 2013,andthese stunning shots of Curiosity ’s space litter .
https://gizmodo.com/see-all-the-landing-hardware-that-curiosity-scattered-o-5932592
https://gizmodo.com/this-is-all-the-beautiful-space-litter-left-on-mars-by-5966206
Point being : small though Opportunity may appear in the picture , this really is a uncommon and beautiful monitor of all that we ’ve reach in our endeavour in blank . A pic of a robot on Mars , captured by another robot revolve Mars . If you do n’t think that ’s amazing , I really do n’t know what to separate you .
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