Built for 90 days. It explored Mars for nearly 15 years. đź”´
When NASA’s Opportunity rover landed on Mars in 2004, its mission was ambitious: explore the Martian surface and search for evidence that liquid water had once existed there.
Opportunity didn’t take long to deliver.
After landing inside a small impact crater on Meridiani Planum, the golf-cart-sized rover discovered rocks and minerals that pointed to Mars’ watery past—including tiny, iron-rich formations nicknamed “blueberries.”
And it kept going.
A mission expected to last just three months ultimately stretched across nearly 15 years, turning Opportunity into one of the most remarkable robotic explorers in the history of space exploration.
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