From Alexandra Witze, Nature:
After exploring for 15 years across 45 kilometres of the Meridiani Planum region of Mars, NASA’s Opportunity rover is officially dead.…
…Emotions ran high at mission control on the evening of the final contact attempt. “There was silence. There were tears. There were hugs,” tweeted Tanya Harrison, a Mars scientist at Arizona State University in Tempe.…
Read more: Opportunity lost: NASA says goodbye to pioneering Mars rover (Nature)
From Eric Mack, CNET:
NASA made its final attempts to contact its estranged Martian rover, Opportunity, late Tuesday. There was no response, and NASA is convening its leadership to deliver what appears to be a eulogy for its well-traveled robot Wednesday at 11 a.m. PT.
Tanya Harrison, an alum of Opportunity’s operations team, was in the room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Tuesday night and shared on Twitter: “Spent the evening at JPL as the last ever commands were sent to the Opportunity rover on #Mars. There was silence. There were tears.” Space fans shed tears too as NASA’s official announcement approached.…
Read more: NASA set to hold funeral for silent Mars Opportunity rover (CNET)
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