The American space agency says it is concerned but hopeful that its veteran robot rover on Mars can survive a big dust storm on the planet. The 15-year-old vehicle, known as Opportunity ...

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For the second time in its career, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is hunkering down on the Red Planet and foregoing scientific operations as a dust storm whirls around the intrepid ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover isn’t doing much of anything right now, and that’s ...

The Opportunity rover landed on Mars nearly 15 years ago, logging more than 28 miles and recording hundreds of thousands of extraterrestrial images. NASA lost communication with the rover during ...

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In the end, the golf-buggy-sized rovers surpassed all expectations. Spirit worked for six years, logging a drive distance of almost 8km; and Opportunity trundled on for 45km over 14.5 years - a ...

Dive into the story of NASA’s Opportunity Rover on Mars! From groundbreaking discoveries to the challenges of a global dust storm, explore the legacy of this extraordinary mission on the Red Planet.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover has been sitting still on Mars since June. It was then ...

The finding sparked interest in more Mars rovers, and in January 2004, NASA launched Spirit and Opportunity. More formally known as the Mars Exploration Rovers, the machines received their names ...

To bid farewell to NASA's plucky Opportunity rover in 2018, mission staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory decided to play Billie Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You." A new documentary, "Good Night ...