Just a few days ago the Mars Rover Opportunity sent back this amazing shot giving us a glimpse into what the Red Planet really is like.
Did you know that Mars is currently host to three functional orbiting spacecraft: Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and one on the surface, the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
With another rover, Curiosity scheduled to land next month, we wanted to explore what we have seen of the Red Planet so far.
Let's start our tour by exploring the surface of the planet.
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and Earth's closest neighbor. It is called the red planet because the iron oxide on its surface gives it a reddish color.
This is the rover, Opportunity.
Opportunity is a robotic rover currently exploring Mars and has been there since January 25, 2004.
Here is what opportunity probably looks like in action.
Since opportunity can't take self portraits, this is a digital image of what the rover might look like in action.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover project for NASA.
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