Mars Exploration Program

NASA's Record-Setting Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End

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수요일, 2월 13, 2019
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The Opportunity rover stopped communicating with Earth when a severe Mars-wide dust storm blanketed its location in June 2018.

Key Points: 
  • The Opportunity rover stopped communicating with Earth when a severe Mars-wide dust storm blanketed its location in June 2018.
  • From the day Opportunity landed, a team of mission engineers, rover drivers and scientists on Earth collaborated to overcome challenges and get the rover from one geologic site on Mars to the next.
  • And it's the technical legacy of the Mars Exploration Rovers, which is carried aboard Curiosity and the upcoming Mars 2020 mission.
  • JPL managed the Mars Exploration Rovers Opportunity and Spirit for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.