On Tuesday (February 13, 2019) NASA announced that its Mars Opportunity rover mission – one of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration – at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars.
The Opportunity rover stopped communicating with Earth when a severe Mars-wide dust storm blanketed its location in June 2018. After more than a thousand commands to restore contact, engineers in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) made their last attempt to revive Opportunity on Tuesday, to no avail. The solar-powered rover’s final communication was received June 10, 2018
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