Mars rover "Opportunity" Farewell

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NASA has officially stopped trying to communicate with the rover Opportunity after a record breaking 15 year span. NASA declared its Opportunity Mars rover dead today (Feb. 13), more than eight months after the solar-powered robot went silent during a raging dust storm on the Red Planet — and a day after the final calls to wake Oppy up went unanswered.

Opportunity roamed the Martian surface for nearly a decade and a half, covering more than a marathon's worth of ground and finding conclusive evidence that the Red Planet hosted large bodies of liquid water in the ancient past.

Of course between the Curiosity and Opportunity, they sent us these rather "interesting" pictures back too... It's all just rocks and shadows, nothing to see here...

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Of course ever since this picture we've never looked at MARS the same way again. No wonder there was so much interest in the red planet after this beauty was broadcast back to us. Just rocks and shadows they say.

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Of course the fact that the abundance of isotopes found in what little is left of the Martian atmosphere could have only come from a large nuclear explosion...

Boom... mic drop and silence.

• Mars was apparently Earthlike for most of
its history with an ocean and persistent
greenhouse like on Venus
• Then, ~0.5Billion years ago Mars suffered a
Chixulube-size impact formed the Lyot
Impact Basin and apparently collapsed
Mars climate and dried up its oceans
• Then, after some indeterminate period
Mars suffered a bizarre nuclear disaster


http://spsr.utsi.edu/articles/Eviden...inMarsPast.pdf

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Selfie

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Outstanding compilation of Martian Artifacts. https://youtu.be/XhMk0Supuq0

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It seems to me you lived your life
like a rover in the wind
never fading with the sunset
when the dust set in.

Your tracks will always fall here,
among Mars' reddest hills;
your candle's burned out long before
your science ever will.#ThanksOppy. I owe you so much. pic.twitter.com/x0i5WqA9sL

— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) February 13, 2019