PIA17759: Self-Portrait by Opportunity Mars Rover in January 2014
<p>NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded the component images for this self-portrait about three weeks before completing a decade of work on Mars. The rover's panoramic camera (Pancam) took the images during the interval Jan. 3, 2014, to Jan. 6, 2014, a few days after winds removed some of the dust that had been accumulating on the rover's solar panels.
</p><p>Opportunity landed on Mars on Jan. 25, 2004, Universal Time (Jan. 24, 2004, PST) for a mission that was planned to last three months. It is still active 10 Earth years later.
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This image is presented as a vertical projection. The mast on which the Pancam is mounted does not appear in the image, though its shadow does.
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