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Soaking up the Sun

Soaking up the Sun
Soaking up the Sun Opportunity took this shadow selfie with her Pancam on October 20, 2017 as she basked in the winter sunlight. It was not long after she popped her first wheelie of October trying to climb up onto a chosen wind tail target at La Bajada. “It’s tough terrain,” said MER Deputy Principal Investigator Ray Arvidson. But the rover and her team persevered in Perseverance, and by month’s end, they scored. NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell University / Arizona State University