NASA Says Farewell to Mars Opportunity Rover
The Opportunity rover was expected to operate for just 90 days. Instead, it expanded our scientific understanding of Mars for over a decade.
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NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover traversed the red planet for more than a decade. Its photography—simultaneously detailed and panoramic—made a hostile environment seem almost familiar, revealing the nature of a neighbor to which both the agency and several billionaires want to send humans.
On Wednesday, after seven months during which NASA was unable to establish contact with the machine, its 15-year mission was declared complete.