Ever imagined running a marathon on the red planet? Now you can actually experience that through a time-lapse video that has been captured by Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Between January 2004 and April 2015, cameras on the rover took the images shown in the video.

Opportunity has covered a distance of 26.2 miles from its landing location within a crater on a flat plain called Meridiani Planum. Opportunity has travelled the longest distance among all Mars rovers so far. In the beginning, it was aimed at lasting 90 Sols i. e. a Sol, one Martian day, is 24 hours and 37 minutes; however, it is still there finding details about the red planet.

Rover Opportunity's journey lasted 11 years and two months and it has been captured in video of eight minutes and NASA has now released that footage. The marathon started from a run mission of 90 days.

According to Opportunity project manager John Callas, "This is the first time any human enterprise has exceeded the distance of a marathon on the surface of another world. A first time happens only once." The team is located at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California".

According to reports, rover that weighs 384 pound consists of multiple cameras i. e. a navigational camera, a panoramic camera in addition to a microscopic imager that is capable of taking high-resolution images of soils and rocks.

There are many instruments on Opportunity for studying mineralogy and composition, together with a miniature thermal emission spectrometer, a rock abrasion tool and an alpha particle X-ray spectrometer.