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Opportunity’s long and winding road, April 2018

Opportunity’s long and winding road, April 2018
Opportunity’s long and winding road, April 2018 The gold line on the image on the left shows Opportunity's route from the Eagle Crater landing site to Marathon Valley, which is north of her current location in Perseverance Valley. The base image for the map is a mosaic of images taken by the Context Camera onboard the MRO. Larry Crumpler, of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, provided the route add-ons. Right graphic shows the rover’s movements up to Sol 5040 (Mar. 29, 2018), the last drive of the month. Phil Stooke, author of The International Atlas of Mars Exploration Volumes 1 and 2, (Cambridge University Press), of the University of Western Ontario, Canada, documented this graphic with sol and site annotations. The base image was taken by the HiRISE camera also onboard MRO. (left) NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / L. Crumpler; (right) UA / P. Stooke