NASA declares Opportunity dead after unequaled Mars mission: ‘We loved that rover’

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 14:20 in Astronomy & Space

Opportunity, the intrepid NASA rover that spent 15 years on Mars climbing in and out of craters to gather evidence of the planet’s watery past, has been brought down by tiny particles of dust. It’s a humble ending for a machine that survived a 300-million-mile journey through space, executed a ...

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