NASA bid adieu to Opportunity Mars Rover: Here are 5 things you should know timesnownews.com

After 15 years of exploring the surface of the red planet, Mars, NASA’s Opportunity Rover mission has successfully ended. Opportunity Rover, the robotic rover was launched on July 7, 2003, as part of the Mars Exploration Rover programme. It provided various astonishing images to scientists continuously for more than 14 years, becoming the longest-lasting robot. But, last year suddenly the US Space agency lost contact with the rover when a severe dust-storm blanketed Mars. After several failed attempts to connect the rover, NASA on Wednesday with grief announced the Opportunity rover as dead. Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science in a news conference said, “It is therefore that I am standing here with a sense of deep appreciation and gratitude that I declare the Opportunity mission as complete.”