The Opportunity rover launched on a Delta II Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. January 24, 2004 It landed in the Meridiani Planum, a large plain straddling Mars' equator.

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity owed its astounding longevity to superior engineering, smart and creative drivers, and surprisingly consistent Red Planet winds, mission team members said.

It's a dark, sad day for space fans the world over. NASA has officially said goodbye to the Mars Opportunity rover, one of its greatest achievements, who's watch has come to an end.. In late ...

Today’s final Opportunity news briefing took on the trappings of a memorial service, featuring far more ceremony than NASA employed when the Spirit rover — Opportunity’s twin in the Mars ...

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 six-wheeled rover landed on the red planet in January 2004 for what was billed as a 90-day mission. The plucky robot was still going until a dust storm on Mars last summer killed it.

NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity celebrates its ninth anniversary on Mars today. When it landed in 2004, NASA said it would be pleased if the rover lasted 90 Martian days. It's survived 3,200.

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

In case you haven’t been keeping track of the plight of NASA’s Opportunity rover, I’ll get you caught back up: A dust storm covered Mars, the rover fell asleep, and now it won’t wake back up.

The rover brought along the Ingenuity helicopter, the first to fly on another planet. Smoke simulation by Joel Adams. This video has been dubbed in over 20 languages, adjustable in the Settings menu ...

Perseverance cracked open a tricky Mars rock to find water-related minerals, then zoomed across the landscape to make its ...

In addition to drilling rock core samples, the science team has been grinding its way into rocks to make sense of the ...