The Opportunity Mars Rover may be officially offline for good, but its legacy of science and imagery is ongoing — and NASA just shared the last (nearly) complete panorama the robot sent back before it was blanketed in dust.
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See the Opportunity rover’s last image from Mars
NASA recently announced that they will not revive our friend the Opportunity rover. The 15-year-old machine sent over 200,000 photos to Earth, and will be dearly missed. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Mars, Mars Rover, Red Planet, and Opportunity
View More See the Opportunity rover’s last image from MarsOpportunity Mars Rover goes to its last rest after extraordinary 14-year mission
Opportunity, one of two rovers sent to Mars in 2004, is officially offline for good, NASA and JPL officials announced today at a special press conference. “I declare the Opportunity mission as complete, and with it the Mars Exploration Rover mission as complete,” said NASA’s Thomas Zurbuchen.
View More Opportunity Mars Rover goes to its last rest after extraordinary 14-year missionMars Rover Curiosity is switching brains so it can fix itself
When you send something to space, it’s good to have redundancy. Sometimes you want to send two whole duplicate spacecraft just in case — as was the case with Voyager — but sometimes it’s good enough to have two of critical components. Mars Rover Curiosity is no exception, and it is now in the process of switching from one main “brain” to the other so it can do digital surgery on the first.
View More Mars Rover Curiosity is switching brains so it can fix itselfMars orbiter spots silent, dust-covered Opportunity rover as dust storm clears
Mars rover Opportunity has been operating on the surface of the Red Planet since 2004, but a dust storm this summer may prove to be the mission’s toughest challenges. The enormous storm caked Opportunity in dust and blocked out the sun, its source of energy — and there’s no guarantee the batteries aren’t dead for good. But now that the skies have cleared, we at least have our first look at the workhorse rover from orbit.
View More Mars orbiter spots silent, dust-covered Opportunity rover as dust storm clearsCan’t get out of bed? NASA picked the perfect songs to wake up its Mars rover.
Having trouble getting up in the morning? Crank up a playlist inspired to wake up a robot on Mars.
NASA engineers have picked songs to greet their sleeping Opportunity rover on Mars, which survived a Martian dust storm in June but is yet to switch ba…
Curiosity rover celebrates six cold, lonely years on Mars with a tweet
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Being alone on a cold alien landscape may seem like a sad way to pass six years, but for the Mars Curiosity rover, it’s been a brilliant stretch.
Sunday, Aug. 5 marked the sixth anniversary of Curiosity’s historic touchdown on the surface of Mars and the rover celebrated the way we all do: with a post on social media.
I touched down on #Mars six years ago. Celebrating my 6th landing anniversary with the traditional gift of iron… oxide. (It puts the red in Red Planet.) https://t.co/AgssRU46yh pic.twitter.com/IAMa5H4TUG
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) August 5, 2018 Read more…
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View More Curiosity rover celebrates six cold, lonely years on Mars with a tweetNASA’s Open Source Rover lets you build your own planetary exploration platform
Got some spare time this weekend? Why not build yourself a working rover from plans provided by NASA? The spaceniks at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have all the plans, code, and materials for you to peruse and use — just make sure you’ve got $2,500 and a bit of engineering know-how. This thing isn’t made out of Lincoln Logs.
View More NASA’s Open Source Rover lets you build your own planetary exploration platformAnyone can name the new Mars rover, but the nerds in charge will have to approve it
Space. The final frontier. A vast, formless abyss into which humanity launches its satellites and rovers in a boundless quest for knowledge. The discoveries made in that airless vacuum of mystery could impact the human understanding of the cosmos, an…
View More Anyone can name the new Mars rover, but the nerds in charge will have to approve itNASA’s Opportunity rover braves huge dust storm on Mars as scientists keep watch
The hardest working rover on Mars is fighting for its robotic life on the red planet.
NASA announced on Friday that the Opportunity rover is currently being hit by the worst dust storm it’s ever experienced in the 15 years since it landed on Ma…
NASA will send a tiny helicopter to Mars in 2020
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NASA announced that it’s sending a helicopter to Mars in a little over two years.
If successful, this aerial Mars explorer, with a body about the size of a football, would be the first helicopter to fly on another planet.
NASA hopes to launch the prototype to Mars with the agency’s 2020 rover, which is designed to hunt for signs of past life on the red planet.
“After the Wright Brothers proved 117 years ago that powered, sustained, and controlled flight was possible here on Earth, another group of American pioneers may prove the same can be done on another world,” Thomas Zurbuchen, the Associate Administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement. Read more…
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View More NASA will send a tiny helicopter to Mars in 2020NASA is gearing up a new rover for a mission to find evidence of life on Mars
NASA is gearing up for its next mission to Mars with a more tricked-out, updated version of the Curiosity Mars rover, the agency announced recently. New hardware for the Mars 2020 mission includes seven new instruments, new wheels, a new drill to…
View More NASA is gearing up a new rover for a mission to find evidence of life on Mars