Mars Exploration Rover Project

17 May 2022

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[ 12 May 2022 ] Milky Way’s supermassive black hole shines in stunning first portrait News
[ 9 May 2022 ] Webb optical alignment complete and virtually perfect News
[ 2 May 2022 ] Ingenuity zooms over Mars rover’s discarded parachute and backshell News
[ 14 April 2022 ] The largest comet ever seen has been measured – and it’s a whopper News
[ 21 March 2022 ] Webb optics alignment achieves near perfect focus News

NASA managers hopeful Opportunity will survive its trial by dust

13 June 2018 Astronomy Now

NASA managers are optimistic the agency’s Opportunity Mars rover will survive a huge dust storm that is preventing sunlight from recharging the robot’s solar arrays, knocking it out of contact with Earth.

NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity scales new heights

11 January 2015 Astronomy Now

Despite ongoing problems with its flash memory, Opportunity reached the summit of “Cape Tribulation” on the rim of Endeavour Crater during its 3,894th Martian day, pausing to photograph the stunning vista.