From a rocky outcrop on the rim of the Endeavour crater ( story and photo ), the rover has angled its solar arrays at the sun, as its nine on-board cameras record thousands of striking images: You never know, but this might be Opportunity's last Martian winter, and it just found a new vista to wait out the inhospitably harsh Martian climate.
Or use the links at the bottom of Powell's Mars website.
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Just go the iPhone or Android app stores. The tersely named app (in astronaut-speak), "Mars Images" automatically updates the latest shots from the planet's surface and also allows you to browse older photos from the NASA archive.
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NASA computer scientist Mark Powell, who works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( website ) in Los Angeles, has developed a free app that downloads images directly to iPhone and Android users. While the two rovers had been expected to stop working 90 days after briefly searching for signs of water, Spirit didn't go dark until last year, and Opportunity, way past its prime and warranty date, continues to trudge across Mars streaming terra-byte -sized images and data back to earth - Pixar's Wall-E, as cheerfully re-imagined by Werner Herzog. Trundling across Mars, pint-sized Opportunity has been sending images back to Earth since it landed in 2004, just three weeks after its partner, Spirit, dropped onto the dusty planet's surface. The only thing missing - a cheerful, 'wish you were here.' Ah. After a little vicarious space exploration (aka Baron Munchausen-by-proxy), you'll rediscover a zeal for work. Then, with a assist from a grateful space agency, every time you feel that special buzz in your pocket, it's the Mars Rover calling from deep space, just checking in and returning the favor downloading another gorgeously desolate postcard from the Red Planet straight to your smart phone. Vacantly staring at online travel sites during the afternoon doldrums before your daily commute home? Well, let NASA slack-off for you instead - after all, your taxes have helped to fund the program for years.
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