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Bookmark or Share- 20 Years After Landing: How NASA’s Twin Rovers Changed Mars ScienceOpportunity, the first rover to go a marathon-length distance on another planet, would ultimately cover nearly 30 miles (45 kilometers) in total – the farthest distance driven on another planet. “This was a paradigm shift no one was expecting,” said former project manager John Callas of JPL.
- Opportunity - NASA ScienceThe Opportunity rover searched for ancient water on Mars, and found evidence that the Red Planet once had a period when it was wet enough, for long enough, that it could have sustained microbial life. The rover's original 90-day mission became an extraordinary 15 years, until the rover finally succumbed to a dust storm.
- Opportunity (rover) - WikipediaOpportunity, also known as MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover – B) or MER-1, and nicknamed Oppy, is a robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 until 2018. [1] Opportunity was operational on Mars for 5111 sols (14 years, 138 days on Earth).
- Mars Exploration Rovers: Spirit and Opportunity - NASA ScienceOpportunity worked for nearly 15 years on Mars and broke the driving record for putting the most miles on its odometer, ending its mission on Feb. 13, 2019. This infographic highlights NASA’s twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) Spirit and Opportunity.
- No, the Last Words of NASA's Opportunity Rover Weren't 'My Battery Is ...Last week, NASA announced that its long-lived Opportunity Mars Rover had finally died after nearly 15 years exploring the surface of the Red Planet.
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