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When the sky first cleared The MER team saw Opportunity for the first time in months when HiRISE, a high-resolution
camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this image in late
September 2018, after the sky over Endeavour cleared from the monster global storm
called a planet-encircling dust Event (PEDE). The image shows that the rover is still
hunkered down at her site about halfway down Perseverance Valley, which cuts the
western rim of Endeavour Crater. But to untrained and unknowing eyes, the golf cart
size rover could be mistaken for a boulder. The square highlighting the rover is about
one kilometer (a half-mile) across. NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona