Space Daily May 19, 2026 • 01:37

The Opportunity rover survived on Mars for 14 years — roughly 55 times longer than its 90-day design mission — before a 2018 global dust storm so vast it turned "day into night" across the entire planet buried its solar panels, and despite NASA sending more t - Space Daily

The Opportunity rover survived on Mars for 14 years — roughly 55 times longer than its 90-day design mission — before a 2018 global dust storm so vast it turned "day into night" across the entire planet buried its solar panels, and despite NASA sending more t - Space Daily

In January 2004, a golf-cart-sized robot bounced down through the atmosphere of Mars on a cluster of airbags, rolled to a stop, and started doing what it was sent to do. NASA’s engineers had given it 90 Martian days to work. Maybe 92 Earth days if you wanted …

In January 2004, a golf-cart-sized robot bounced down through the atmosphere of Mars on a cluster of airbags, rolled to a stop, and started doing what it was sent to do.
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