1. Sticking the landing One of Opportunity's most memorable feats was, appropriately, its first. Even now we treat the landing of a rover on Marsas a pretty big dealbut it was an especially epic event 15 years ago -- particularly because Opportunity's landing came just 20 days after the...
Eleven years and two months after landing on Mars, NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has driven in total further than the length of a marathon race: 26.219 miles (42.195 km.). (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona) Opportunity reached the milestone with a 153-foot (46.5 meters) ...
Six years after landing on Mars, the rover Spirit is bogged down in Martian soil, researchers at Cornell University said, but Opportunity carries on.The vehicle (Spirit) seems to be in a unique combination of soft, sandy material and slopes that we havenEducation...
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, having been on Mars since January 2004, exceeded 25 miles of total driving on July 27, 2014. The yellow line indicates Opportunity's route from the landing site.NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/NMMNHS Opportunity and its twin, Spirit, landed in different parts...
Opportunity also fondly known as 'Oppy' explored the Mars for more than 14 years making it NASA's longest-running Mars rover.
At the post-landing news conference, O'Keefe pulled out a bottle of champagne and proposed a toast "to the Mars Exploration Rover team, the best in the world!" When he toasted the team after Spirit's landing Jan. 3, some reporters wondered if the celebration might have been a bit ...
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, ...
slow the descent and airbags are inflated to cushion the impact. The craft will hit at roughly 50 km/hr and bounce and roll along the surface. After it stops the airbags will deflate and retract, the petals open, and the rover will deploy its solar arrays. The landing will take place ...
Scientists thought it wouldn’t travel more than a kilometer from its landing spot, but instead, the adventurous little robot traveled to distant parts of Mars, even climbing up a gravel-strewn slope as steep as 32-degrees, thereby setting an off-world record. ...
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, having been on Mars since January 2004, exceeded 25 miles of total drivindg on July 27, 2014. The yellow line indicates Opportunity's route from the landing site. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/NMMNHS) There has been some uncertainty regardin...