The robot named rover Opportunity is surviving the worst after a long time, spending its eighth winter in the Mars planet Mars.
🌕Image of rover Opportunity🌕
The veteran robot that has been called as rover Opportunity created by NASA on the planet Mars has just spent the shortest weeks of sunlight of the long Martian year as it has its solar panels suitable for coming dust storms in 2018. As its twin robot that has already been deactivated and that was called Spirit, which also managed to reach the planet Mars in 2004, the mission of this robot named Opportunity is specially programmed to last 90 Martian days, or suns, this is equivalent about three months.
🌕Image of the robot 'Spirit'🌕
The minimum time period of sunlight for southern Mars this year was in the months of October and November.
since on the planet Mars it takes a estimated time of 1.88 Earth years to orbit the Sun and, like the planet Earth, it has an inclined axis, so it obtains seasons similar to those of the Earth but almost twice
Both the robotic rover Opportunity and the robot Spirit are located in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mars, where the sun appears in the northern sky during autumn and winter, so that the power of the solar array improves when tilting the robot rover Opportunity to the north.
The robot named Spirit could not keep up his energy to survive during his fourth Martian winter, in 2009 after he lost the use of his two wheels, well beyond his planned life. the Spirit robot became unable to maneuver the exit of a sand trap towards the favorable inclination towards the north.
Current exploration of the robot Opportunity created by Perseverance Valley, carved with fluids, positioned him well to work in a very productive way during the end of the fall season and the beginning of the winter season of this year. The so-called robot rover Opportunity has used many stops at energy-friendly sites to inspect the local rocks, examine the shape of the valley and take pictures of the environment from inside the valley.
🌕 images taken by the robot Opportunity🌕
stone with the shape of a sphere
stone shaped traffic light
found a 'flower' on the surface of Mars
🌕Image of the Marineris Valley on the planet Mars🌕
The valley on the planet Mars runs downhill to the east on an inland slope of the western edge of the Endurance crater, which has a diameter measurement of 22 kilometers. Since the robot entered the top of the valley about five months ago, the stops that the rover Opportunity made between the routes have been made in places oriented north of the planet Mars, at the southern end of the channel. The rover Opportunity team calls the sites "water lilies" and plans the routes in a very safe way.
🌕Images of global dust storms on Mars🌕
This so-called dust storms, which surround the planet Mars are more likely in the southern spring and summer period on Mars, although these dust storms do not occur every Martian year. The last dust storm was in 2007, which is why there was a drastic reduction in the sunlight available for the Spirit and Opportunity robots, which caused emergency cuts in some operations and communications to save energy. Some atmospheric scientists anticipate that the planet Mars will have its next dust storm surrounding the planet in 2018.
In the next few months, some scientists and engineers plan to continue using the Opportunity robot to investigate how Perseverance Valley was carved and on the edge of the crater