10 Years Ago, Opportunity Rover Began a 90-Day Mission That Never Ended

10 Years Ago, Opportunity Rover Began a 90-Day Mission That Never Ended Jul 8th 2013, 13:30, by Brian Barrett When NASA’s Opportunity rover launched on July 7th, 2003, expectations were modest. It would spend 90 Martian days exploring soil and rock samples and taking panoramas of the Red Planet; anything else would be a bonus. Nearly ten years after its initial shift was up, Opportunity is still going strong. Not that it’s been an [...] Related Stories Scientists Have Detected Massive, Unexplained Deep Space Explosions