The Greatest Discoveries From NASA's Mars Opportunity Rover

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By Korey Haynes
Feb 13, 2019 7:15 PMDec 13, 2019 3:05 PM
panorama of Mars' Orion Crater
Opportunity traveled for 14 years on Mars, taking data and images such as this one from Orion Crater. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.)

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The Opportunity rover, like its twin Spirit, was designed for an original mission of just three months. When engineers lost contact on June 10 of last year, it had been exploring for fourteen years. And today, mission scientists finally declared an official end to the mission. Here are just a few of Opportunity’s many successes during its long Red Planet expedition.

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