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Opportunity’s eye view This is a false color version of the panorama Opportunity was working on right up to a few sols or
Martian days before the planet-encircling dust event (PEDE) caused the robot field geologist to
shut down and enter a sleep survival mode in June 2018. From the black areas, it’s clear the
rover has some more work to do. MER enthusiast and image processor James Sorenson did the
processing honors here. “I hope when or 'if' Opportunity wakes up, that she could continue to
finish it,” he said. In addition to processing MER images, he devotes the rest of his spare time to
long exposure deep-space astrophotography and 3D printing. NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / ASU / J. Sorenson