Martian winds helped clear Opportunity's solar panels, extending its operation. Cutting-edge lithium-ion batteries contributed to the craft's longevity. Opportunity's robust specifications and NASA's ...

The universe has always drawn humanity towards it, and throughout the centuries, humans have looked up to the stars for answers, in curiosity and exploration. NASA’s Opportunity rover became one of ...

In February 2015, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is approaching a cumulative driving distance on Mars equal to the length of a marathon race. This map shows the rover’s position relative to ...

On Independence Day 1997, millions were glued to their computer and TV screens as exhilarated scientists in the Mission Control Center watched their first rover touch down on Mars. The little rover ...

It's time say goodbye to the Opportunity rover. The rover's team made its last attempt to contact Opportunity on Tuesday night, and it went unanswered. On Wednesday, NASA confirmed that the mission is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's illustration of a six-wheeled rover on the surface of Mars, with a rock-studded reddish landscape in the background.

The initial work of NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity at its new location on Mars shows surface compositional differences from anything the robot has studied in its first 7.5 years of exploration.

NASA’s Opportunity rover begins its 15th year on the surface of Mars today. The rover landed in a region of the Red Planet called Meridiani Planum on Jan. 24, 2004, sending its first signal back to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 25, 2004, NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars! This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to land ...

NASA’s senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on “Cape York,” with examination of a rock intensely altered by water. The fractured rock, ...