Tag: Opportunity

An artist's concept portrays a NASA Mars Exploration Rover on the surface of Mars. NASA/JPL/Cornell University

NASA’s Opportunity Rover Started Its 16th Year On Mars But It Still Remains Silent

MessageToEagle.com | January 30, 2019

MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s Opportunity rover begins its 16th year on the surface of Mars. “Fifteen years on the surface of Mars is testament not only to a magnificent machine

The extent of Mars' huge dust storm on June 11, 2018, as observed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Astronomy

NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover Is Battling a Dust Storm Of Epic Proportions. Will It Survive?

MessageToEagle | June 14, 2018

MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s long-lived Opportunity Mars rover is weathering a monster dust storm that has plunged its environs into permanent darkness. That darkness has prevented the solar-powered Opportunity from charging its