Opportunity has been given a new lease on life after the Red Planet gave the tenacious Mars rover a power-boosting spring clean. When NASA engineers envisaged the mission of Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, they were, in hindsight, fairly pessimistic about their mission duration. read more
NASA Mars rover Curiosity never went to mars but operating from some where in Atacama desert in chile. Mars on Earth Above image shows a dry streambed on an alluvial fan in the Atacama Desert, Chile, revealing the typical patchy, heterogeneous mixture of grain sizes deposited together. read more
After 14 years, the Mars rover Opportunity is still roving about and taking measurements on the Martian surface, due to these mysterious, recurring “cleaning events,” which have wiped the rover’s heavily-encrusted solar panels completely clean, enabling it to receive solar power and to continue doing its tasks. read more