Coordinated teams of engineers, scientists and machines successfully delivered NASA's Opportunity rover to Mars and operated it for nearly fifteen years.

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"Coordinated teams of engineers, scientists and machines successfully delivered NASA’s Opportunity rover to Mars and operated it for nearly fifteen years."

NASA's mission retrospective documents Opportunity's landing in January 2004 and its operation until communication was lost in June 2018. The mission illustrates a sophisticated achievement requiring spacecraft, robotics, communications infrastructure and sustained human coordination.

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Source title NASA's Record-Setting Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End

Source authors NASA

Source year 2019

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