On January 25, 2004, NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars!
This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the red planet. Its counterpart, the Spirit rover, arrived just three weeks earlier. Opportunity is now the longest-running Mars rover mission. It was only intended to last 90 days, but the rover has been trekking around the Red Planet for more than 50 times its expected lifetime. Over the years, Opportunity has found meteorites on Mars, observed dust storms and looked for clues about the presence of water in Mars' ancient past.
This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the red planet. Its counterpart, the Spirit rover, arrived just three weeks earlier. Opportunity is now the longest-running Mars rover mission. It was only intended to last 90 days, but the rover has been trekking around the Red Planet for more than 50 times its expected lifetime. Over the years, Opportunity has found meteorites on Mars, observed dust storms and looked for clues about the presence of water in Mars' ancient past.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:04On January 25th, 2004, NASA's Opportunity rover landed on
00:08Mars. This was the second of NASA's twin Mars exploration rovers
00:12to land on the Red Planet. Its counterpart, the Spirit rover, arrived just
00:16three weeks earlier. Opportunity is now the longest running Mars rover
00:20mission. It was only intended to last 90 days, but the rover has been
00:24trekking around on the Red Planet for more than 50 times its expected lifetime.
00:28Over the years, Opportunity has found meteorites on Mars, observed dust storms,
00:32and looked for clues about the presence of water in Mars' ancient past.
00:36And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:40NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology