NASA’s Opportunity rover spent nearly 15 years exploring Mars, rewriting expectations for robotic space missions and uncovering evidence that the Red Planet may once have supported microbial life.

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 ...

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover was built to operate for just 90 days, but kept going for 15 years. NASA officially declared it dead on Wednesday, and its last message to scientists before it went dark ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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, ...