It’s exactly 20 years since a Mars rover took this historic image
Twenty years ago, on March 8, a NASA Mars rover called Spirit made history when it captured a very special photograph.
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Celebrating NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity Rovers’ Mars Landings
Read more: Celebrating NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity Rovers’ Mars LandingsNASA’s twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, stand on the Martian landscape in this poster created to commemorate their 20th landing anniversary. The rovers landed in January 2004, on opposite sides of the planet in locales that scientists suspected had been affected by liquid water in the past. Their main scientific objective was to search for…
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20 Years After Landing: How NASA’s Twin Rovers Changed Mars Science
Read more: 20 Years After Landing: How NASA’s Twin Rovers Changed Mars ScienceThis month marks the 20th anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity’s landing on Mars, part of a mission whose legacy will extend far into the future. In January 2004, twin NASA rovers named Spirit and Opportunity touched down on opposite sides of Mars, kicking off a new era of interplanetary robotic exploration. They arrived in dramatic…
