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Operator - NASA
mars.nasa.gov/mer
Mars Exploration Rover on Wikipedia
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020
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Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Animation
Uploaded on Jun 24, 2011
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This 11-minute animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011 and land a rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012. A shorter 4-minute version of this animation, with narration, is also available on our youtube page.
https://youtu.be/G-LTdtpGymQ
Mars Rover's '90 Day Mission' Now In 10th Year
Published on Jan 7, 2014
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NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers landed on the Red Planet 10 years ago. Spirit 'lights' went dim in 2010 but Opportunity is still returning science. NASA administrator Charles Bolden talks about the rovers and the NASA's future on Mars.
Article "NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Breaks Off-World Driving Record"
by Mike Wall
July 28, 2014
https://youtu.be/3EIyVEBRBFo
Opportunity Rover breaks off-world driving record
Published on Jul 28, 2014
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The rover landed on the Red Planet in 2004 and has since driven a record 25.01 miles (40.02 km). The record was previously held by the Russian Lunokhod 2 which roved the lunar surface for 24.2 miles (39 km) in 1973.
https://youtu.be/EADbiFTHirk
11 Years and counting - Opportunity on Mars
Published on Jan 23, 2015
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The Mars Opportunity rover has driven 25.9 miles (41.7 kilometers) since it landed in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars on Jan. 25, 2004 (Universal Time, which was Jan. 24, PST). That is farther than any other off-Earth surface vehicle has driven. The rover's work on Mars was initially planned for three months. During that prime mission and for more than a decade of bonus performance in extended missions, Opportunity has returned compelling evidence about wet environments on ancient Mars.
https://youtu.be/7zpojhD4hpI
The Curious Life of a Mars Rover - Nat Geo Live
Published on Jan 26, 2015
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Having helped design the Mars rovers Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity, NASA engineer Kobie Boykins reveals what these robots are telling us about the existence of life on the red planet.
https://youtu.be/V3qr9AqZyEI
NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover at Ogunquit Beach (360 View)
Published on May 4, 2017
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This 360-degree panorama was acquired by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity rover looking out over part of an area called Bagnold Dunes, which stretch for miles on Mars. This location, called "Ogunquit Beach," is on the northwestern flank of lower Mount Sharp. Points of interest include the dune’s ripples, and bedrock made from sediments deposited in lakes billions of years ago.
From February to April 2017, Curiosity examined linear sand dunes to compare with what it found in 2015 and 2016 during an investigation of crescent-shaped dunes. This two-phase campaign is the first close-up study of active dunes anywhere other than Earth.
This panorama was stitched together from 115 individual images acquired on March 24-25, 2017, (PST) during the 1,647th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars. The rover's position on Sol 1647 is shown at mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/2017/curiositys-traverse-map-through-sol-1646 as the location reached by a drive on Sol 1646.
The scene is presented with a color adjustment that approximates white balancing, to resemble how the rocks and sand would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.
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Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
https://youtu.be/1Ll-VHYxWXU
Opportunity: NASA rover complete Mars mission
Published on Feb 13, 2019
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Drive along with the NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover and hear the voices of scientists and engineers behind the mission. Designed to run for 90 days, the exploration spanned more than 15 years from 2004 to 2019. Along the way, it discovered definitive proof of liquid water on ancient Mars and set the off-world driving record.
https://youtu.be/IqKgiQeBqbg
NASA bids farewell to the Mars Opportunity rover
Published on Feb 13, 2019
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If you're a fan of Mars exploration, you're probably in mourning right now. NASA's Opportunity rover has effectively been declared dead after the agency's last attempt to contact the storm-struck rover was met with silence. Officials plan to hold a press conference at 2PM Eastern to discuss the outcome, but it's really a formality at this stage. The machine doesn't stand a chance if it doesn't have power -- Martian winter is coming, and Opportunity needs working heaters to survive the chilly conditions.