Mars images captured by Nasa's rover Opportunity - in pictures

This full-circle scene combines 817 images taken by the panoramic camera on Opportunity, Nasa's Mars exploration rover. Opportunity's camera took the images between the 2,811th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's Mars surface mission (21 December 2011) and sol 2,947 (8 May 2012) Photograph: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State University

Fresh tracks from the rover on the planet's surface Photograph: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State University

Opportunity's own solar arrays and deck Photograph: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State University

"The view provides rich geologic context for the detailed chemical and mineral work that the team did at Greeley Haven over the rover's fifth Martian winter, as well as a spectacularly detailed view of the largest impact crater that we've driven to yet with either rover over the course of the mission," said Jim Bell of Arizona State University Photograph: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State University

Late afternoon shadows at Endeavour crater on Mars. Taken between 4.30 and 5.00pm local Mars time through different filters, the images have been combined into this mosaic view Photograph: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State University