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)