May 17, 2012

View of Greeley Haven captured by the Mars Rover Opportunity. The shadow is caused by the solar panel (Photo NASA/JPL-Caltech)

The Mars Rover Opportunity spent the first months of 2012 in Greeley Haven, an outcrop in the area of the ​​Endeavour Crater on Mars because in the southern hemisphere because it was winter and there was the need to use much of which received little solar energy to maintain its temperature to a level sufficient to avoid damage. On May 8, 2012, Opportunity awoke from a sort of hibernation and started moving.