NASA announced our long lived robot friend, opportunity, has lost all contact with us here on earth. For those who don’t know the red planet has been undergoing some extreme storms within the past few months and kept Opportunity stranded. For weeks the team has been working non-stop to reignite the communications with MER-B but just today NASA released to the public they will no longer be using our old friend. The rover launched to the planet mars back in 2003, which means it had just over a 14 year lifespan (since its landed). Considering how long that is NASA did not expect to have it driving on the harsh terrain for that long, so to many Opportunity was a huge success. If you want to read more about the rover and know what it has achieved for us I’ll leave a link here.
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