Unlike the more modern Perseverance rover — which is nuclear-powered — Opportunity relied on solar panels for its electricity. With Mars being notorious for its wind storms, there was an ...

For 15 years, NASA engineers played the Opportunity rover a daily 'wake-up' song. Listen to the best songs from the Mars morning routine playlist. By Paola Rosa-Aquino ...

Way back in 2003, NASA launched the first of what would be come a small army of robots to the surface of Mars. Opportunity followed three weeks after its fellow rover, Spirit, touched down.

The multiple cameras on the latest rover are also new upgrades of the one-megapixel B&W CCD units used on Opportunity, which was launched in 2011 and ceased working in early 2018 when a massive ...

After nearly 15 years exploring the Red Planet, the Opportunity rover captured the images for what would be its final panorama from May 13 to June 10, 2018.

NASA’s Opportunity rover on Mars has been officially pronounced dead. Its amazingly successful mission lasted nearly 15 years, well beyond its initial three-month goal.

While Opportunity’s team ran through every fixable scenario with over a thousand attempts to contact their record-breaking rover to call home for a 15th year on Mars, InSight’s team started ...

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been on Mars since January 2004, but its mission is threatened by budget cuts. Credit: NASA/JPL illustration WASHINGTON — NASA announced Feb. 13 ...

NASA declared its Opportunity Mars rover dead today (Feb. 13), more than eight months after the solar-powered robot went silent during a raging dust storm on the Red Planet.

NASA's Opportunity Rover has died on Mars. The little solar-paneled robot apparently ran out of battery power during the Red Planet's awesome 2018 dust storm, and after one last attempt to contact ...

NASA's Opportunity rover hasn't phoned home in the months after a global dust storm tore across Mars. Officials at NASA announced the Martian robot's death on Wednesday. Now that both Opportunity ...

After nearly 15 years, NASA's Opportunity Mars rover mission has come to an end as the space agency announced today that is has discontinued the eight-month recovery effort to revive the silent ...