Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Fri Feb 15 2019 04:22:59 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 February 15 [2] Opportunity at Perseverance Valley Image Credit: NASA [3] , JPL-Caltech [4] , Kenneth Kremer [5] , Marco Di Lorenzo Explanation: Opportunity had [6] already reached Perseverance Valley [7] by June of 2018. Its [8] view is reconstructed in a colorized mosaic of images taken by the Mars Exploration Rover's [9] Navcam. In fact, Perseverance Valley is an appropriate name for the destination [10] . Designed for a 90 day mission, Opportunity had traveled across Mars for over 5,000 sols (martian solar days) following a January 2004 landing [11] in Eagle crater. Covering a total distance of over 45 kilometers (28 miles), its intrepid journey of exploration across the Martian landscape has come to a close here. On June 10, 2018, the last transmission from the solar-powered rover was received as a dust storm engulfed the Red Planet [12] . Though the storm has subsided, eight months of attempts to contact Opportunity have not been successful and its trailblazing mission ended after almost 15 years of exploring the surface of Mars [13] . Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [14] | Archive [15] | Submissions [16] | Index [17] | Search [18] | Calendar [19] | RSS [20] | Education [21] | About APOD [22] | Discuss [23] | > [24] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [25] (MTU [26] ) & Jerry Bonnell [27] (UMCP [28] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [29] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [30] A service of: ASD [31] at NASA [32] / GSFC [33] & Michigan Tech. U. [34] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1902/OpportunitySol5074_1a_kremer.jpg [3] http://www.nasa.gov/ [4] http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ [5] http://kenkremer.com/ [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Endeavour_(crater)#The_journey_to_Endeavour [7] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/ details.php?id=PIA22216 [8] ap150329.html [9] https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/index.cfm [10] ap1004.html [11] ap040126.html [12] ap180616.html [13] https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/ nasas-record-setting-opportunity-rover-mission-on-mars-comes-to-end [14] ap190214.html [15] archivepix.html [16] lib/apsubmit2015.html [17] lib/aptree.html [18] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [19] calendar/allyears.html [20] /apod.rss [21] lib/edlinks.html [22] lib/about_apod.html [23] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190215 [24] ap190216.html [25] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [26] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [27] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [28] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [29] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [30] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [31] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [32] https://www.nasa.gov/ [33] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [34] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .