And Opportunity covered more than a marathon's worth of distance, racking up 28.06 miles (45.16 km) on Mars. No other vehicle, robotic or crewed, has ever traveled farther on the surface of ...

In 2004, NASA launched two exploration vehicles to the red planet: the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. These two Mars Exploration Rovers were originally designed for 90-day missions to image ...

Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars 20 years ago this month, ... The two Mars Exploration Rovers launched separately in June and July of 2003 on Boeing Delta II rockets.

Expedition Mars follows the mind bogglingly complex mission to put the Opportunity and Spirit rovers on Mars and looks at the amazing science they’ve done since they arrived on the Red Planet.

Three weeks later, on Jan. 25, Opportunity duplicated Spirit’s feat at Meridiani Planum, which straddles Mars’ equator and might have held enough water 3.7 billion years ago to harbor river ...

Opportunity, one of the two Mars Exploration Rovers launched in 2003, ... a Mars Exploration Rover identical to Spirit and Opportunity (back left), and Curiosity (right). ...

NASA planned on its 2003 Mars Exploration Rover mission lasting 90 days. That was assuming the two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, launched without mishap, survived the 6½-month journey, and ...

NASA’s Twin Spirit and Opportunity Probes Leave Lasting Legacy 20 Years Later The two spacecraft landed on Mars in January 2004, giving scientists the first evidence the red planet once held water.

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has now been exploring the Red Planet for more than 14 years. The robot landed in Meridiani Planum on the night of Jan. 24, 2004 (PST). (It was Jan. 25 in the GMT ...

Spirit and Opportunity blasted off from Earth in July of 2003, each equipped with the tools of a human geologist. They had high-resolution panoramic cameras that gave them the equivalent of 20-20 ...

Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars 20 years ago this month, kicking off a surface mission that reshaped our understanding of the Red Planet.