List of surface features of Mars visited by Spirit and Opportunity
Features recorded by 2004–2018 missions
The crater Lahonten near the Columbia Hills, photographed by the Spirit navcams in May 2004
Cape Verde at the crater Victoria, photographed by the Opportunity navcams in August 2008
The Mars Exploration Rover mission successfully landed and operated the rovers Spirit and Opportunity on the planet Mars from 2004 to 2018. During Spirit's six years of operation and Opportunity's fourteen years of operation, the rovers drove a total of 52 kilometres (32 miles) on the Martian surface, visiting various surface features in their landing sites of Gusev crater and Meridiani Planum, respectively.[1][2][3][4]
Spirit
Hills
- Apollo 1 Hills
- Grissom Hill
- Columbia Hills
- Husband Hill
- McCool Hill
Craters
- Bonneville crater
- Gusev crater
- Thira crater
Rocks
- Adirondack
- Home Plate
- Humphrey
- Pot of Gold
Miscellaneous
- Larry's Lookout
- Sleepy Hollow
Opportunity
Craters
- Argo crater
- Beagle crater
- Bopolu crater
- Concepción crater
- Eagle crater
- Emma Dean crater
- Endeavour (crater)
- Cape Tribulation
- Marathon Valley
- Cape York
- Greeley Haven
- Solander Point
- Cape Tribulation
- Endurance crater
- Erebus crater
- Fram crater
- Naturaliste crater
- Nereus crater
- Santa Maria crater
- Victoria crater
- Cape Verde
- Vostok crater
Rocks
- Block Island meteorite
- Bounce Rock
- El Capitan
- Heat Shield Rock
- Last Chance
- Mackinac Island meteorite
- Matijevic Hill
- Oileán Ruaidh
- Shelter Island meteorite
See also
Solar System portal
Spaceflight portal
References
- ^ "Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Home". mars.nasa.gov. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ Exploratorium. "MER Tools of the Trade | Return to Mars | Exploratorium". www.exploratorium.edu. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ "Opportunity: Longest-Running Mars Rover". Space.com. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ "Evidence of Water Found on Mars". Astrobiology Magazine. March 3, 2004. Archived from the original on September 19, 2020. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
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Features on Mars visited by Opportunity
- List of surface features of Mars visited by Spirit and Opportunity
- Argo
- Eagle
- Fram
- Endurance
- Vostok
- Naturaliste
- Erebus
- Beagle
- Emma Dean
- Victoria (Cape Verde)
- Santa Maria
- Endeavour
- Cape York
- Solander Point
- Cape Tribulation
- Block Island meteorite
- Bounce Rock
- El Capitan
- Heat Shield Rock
- Last Chance
- Mackinac Island meteorite
- Oileán Ruaidh
- Shelter Island meteorite
- Martian spherules
- Mars Exploration Rover
- Timeline of Opportunity
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