Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER), ongoing robotic space mission involving two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, NASA, USA

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Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Animation

Uploaded on Jun 24, 2011

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.

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Mars Rover's '90 Day Mission' Now In 10th Year

Published on Jan 7, 2014

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.

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Article "NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Breaks Off-World Driving Record"

by Mike Wall
July 28, 2014

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Opportunity Rover breaks off-world driving record

Published on Jul 28, 2014

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.

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11 Years and counting - Opportunity on Mars

Published on Jan 23, 2015

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.

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The Curious Life of a Mars Rover - Nat Geo Live

Published on Jan 26, 2015

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.