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Oppy’s recent roves, May 2017

Oppy’s recent roves, May 2017
Oppy’s recent roves, May 2017 This graphic charts Opportunity's roves in April 2017, up to the small crater the team nicknamed Orion that the mission checked out during the final week of the month. The annotated map is courtesy Phil Stooke, an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, author of The International Atlas of Mars Exploration Vol. 2, Spirit to Curiosity: 2004 to 2014 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). The base image was taken by the HiRISE camera onboard MRO. NASA / JPL-Caltech / UA / P. Stooke