Since June 10, 2018 NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been silent. The solar powered rover has been unable to receive enough energy due to a planet wide dust storm….
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NASA’s senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is examining rocks at the edge of Endeavour Crater for signs that they may have been either transported by a flood or eroded in place…
NASA’s senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is working adeptly in some of the most challenging terrain of the vehicle’s 12 years on Mars, on a slope of about 30 degrees. Researchers…
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving. The previous record…
NASA’s Opportunity rover was built for a three-month mission on Mars, but continues to return valuable scientific data 10 years later. Opportunity, one of NASA’s twin Mars Exploration Rovers, reached…
“This is different from any rock ever seen on Mars,” said Steve Squyres, principal investigator for Opportunity at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. “It has a composition similar to some…
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity drove 482 feet (146.8 meters) on June 1, 2011, passing 30 kilometers (18.64 miles) in total odometry during 88 months of driving on Mars. That’s…
“Opportunity”, the second of NASA’s twin Mars rovers, launched successfully July 7 at 11:18 p.m. Eastern time. Check out the Mars rover website to watch an archived webcast of the…
