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Opportunity, 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).
Opportunity landed in Meridiani Planum at , about 25 kilometers (16 mi) downrange (east) of its intended target on January 25, 2004, at 05: Although Meridiani is a flat plain, without the rock fields seen at previous Mars landing sites, Opportunity rolled into an impact crater 22 meters in diameter, with the rim of the crater approximately 10 meters (33 ft) from the rover. [4]
Opportunity (rover) 185 Operated 5111 sols. Last contact June 10, 2018 Meridiani Planum. 2008 NASA: Phoenix Mars Lander: Phoenix (lander) 350 Operated 155 sols. Last contact Nov 2, 2008 Green Valley in Vastitas Borealis
NASA's Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate just three months but kept going and going, was pronounced dead Wednesday NASA declares Mars rover Opportunity dead after 15 years on ...
<p>The saga of the Mars dust storm that may have killed NASA's Opportunity rover may still come with a twist ending. The rover, which has been sitting silently ever since the planet-swallowing ...
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The Mars Exploration Rover mission successfully landed and operated the rovers Spirit and Opportunity on the planet Mars from 2004 to 2018. During Spirit ' s six years of operation and Opportunity ' s fourteen years of operation, the rovers drove a total of 52 kilometres (32 miles) on the Martian surface, visiting various surface features in their landing sites of Gusev crater and Meridiani ...
The rover lasted far longer than its 90-day expected lifetime. For 15 years, NASA engineers played the Opportunity rover a daily 'wake-up' song. Listen to the best songs from the Mars morning ...