Could We Have Saved the Opportunity Rover? | SciShow News

For more than a decade, Opportunity has been one of our best tools for understanding Mars, but after eight months of listening and hoping, it was officially time to put the rover to bed.

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Sources:

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8348/opportunity-hunkers-down-during-dust-storm/
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Images:

https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/21920/2018-giant-dust-storm-on-mars/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Opportunity_in_Endurance_Crater_(cropped).jpg
https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/5863/birds-eye-view-of-opportunity-at-erebus/
https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/6176/cleaned-solar-arrays-gleam-in-mars-rovers-new-selfie/
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/22054/opportunity-after-the-dust-storm/
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/6944/martian-blueberries/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/news/mer20111207.html
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-record-setting-opportunity-rover-mission-on-mars-comes-to-end
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/22273/curiositys-selfie-at-rock-hall/
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/22299/hp3-on-the-martian-surface/?site=insight
https://m.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2017/03/ExoMars_rover
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https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21635/nasa-s-mars-2020-rover-artist-s-concept

Thumbnail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Mars_Rover.jpg