NASA has released a video, which is of eight minutes, showing the 11-year journey of the Opportunity Mars rover. A Popular Science report has unveiled that the video shows the journey as it has navigated a distance equivalent to a marathon.

From January 2004 to April 2015, the rover has completed 26.2 miles of Martian surface. The video shows the Opportunity’s marathon, considered to be the slowest one, across Mars having a number of photos captured by the rover’s cameras between January 2004 and April 2015.

The rover is continuing with its journey on the Red Planet to know more about it. While watching the video, viewers will get a feel that they are in the driver’s seat. The video also has soundtrack created from the vibration measurement on the rover’s journey.

If you hear loud noises then it means that beneath wheels, the ground was tough and if you hear quiet sounds then that means the ground was smooth. The video will also show the two-month long stay of the rover when it got stuck in a sand dune in 2015.

The rover has found many important things like evidence that water once flowed on Martian surface. Now, the solar-powered rover is moving towards a sunny area on Mars called Marathon Valley. There, the rover will spend the Martian winter and will study the area’s geology.

Opportunity Project Manager John Callas of NASA said, “Opportunity Project Manager John Callas of NASA. Each day we transmit data that we collect that day”.