After about fifteen years or roaming around the red planet,
the Opportunity Rover had its solar panels covered by dust from a huge storm
last June. Its batteries ran down, and NASA finally declared the mission over. How
could you summarize a fifteen-year trip on the surface of another planet?
On February 13, 2019 NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory posted
a four-minute YouTube video titled Opportunity: NASA Rover Completes Mars
Mission, which is shown above. Also on February 13, 2019 there was an article
by Jonathan Corum in the New York Times titled NASA’s Opportunity Rover Dies on
Mars. It has a large map of where that rover went.
And on February 14, 2019 in Bad Astronomy at SyFyWire, Phil
Plait Posted another article titled Opportunity lost … but more will arise. That
was quite an impressive drive!
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