This year, NASA’s scientific rover Opportunity celebrated a milestone. It has been exploring Mars for ten years, even though it was only supposed to operate for three months. John Callas is the ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — To celebrate Artemis II’s safe return to Earth, News Channel 11 is taking a look at another one of NASA’s historic accomplishments: Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. In ...

The golf cart-size rover was designed to last only three months, but proved itself to be an unexpected endurance athlete. It traveled more than the distance of a marathon when less than half a mile ...

NASA’s resilient Opportunity Mars rover is rolling again after waiting out the harsh Red Planet winter for more than four months. On Tuesday (May 8), the Opportunity rover moved its wheels for the ...

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 ...

Opportunity and Spirit survive "six minutes of terror." “Landing on Mars” is the story of Opportunity and Spirit surviving a massive solar flare during cruise ...