Opportunity Did Not Answer NASA’s Final Call, And It’s Now Gone To Us
Late Tuesday night, scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent their final data uplink to the Opportunity rover on Mars. And yet from that moment on, Opportunity and its sister rover, Spirit, began plugging along the surface of Mars. When the dust storm originally engulfed Opportunity last year, mission scientists were hopeful they might yet recover the rover.
Source: arstechnica.com