In an image released Tuesday, Opportunity shows up as a small dot-like feature in a high-resolution image captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing the rover on the slopes of Perseverance Valley 166 miles below. It’s been more than three months since the Opportunity rover went silent on Mars after a massive dust storm engulfed the entire red planet, darkening the Martian skies and rendering the robot unable to charge its solar-powered batteries. The rover was spotted on the planet's Perseverance Valley, where it was navigating at the time a dust storm hit the area in May.
NASA's Opportunity rover is spotted on satellite imagery three months after it went silent during a Martian dust storm.