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June 5, 2005
Mars rover Opportunity digs out
The mars rover Opportunity managed to dig itself out, under the diligent guidance of the engineers at Lockheed Martin at Deer Canyon. Click here to see a video of Opportunity digging out. It had been stuck in a sand dune for five weeks, buried up to all six hubs in fine Martian soil. I bet there's some high-fiveing going on down in the canyon. Congratulations, guys. Nice work.
Posted by Peenie Wallie on June 5, 2005 at 9:25 PM
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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. Over this connection, via the Deep Space Network, the American jazz singer Billie Holiday crooned "I'll Be Seeing You," a song which closes with the lines:
I'll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you
So on Tuesday night, they listened. They reminisced. But in the end, no response came. Opportunity would finally be declared dead on Sol 5352, as in five thousand, three hundred, and fifty-two days on Mars.
Opportunity landed on Mars more than 15 Earth years ago, on January 25, 2004. So much time has passed since then. Facebook would not be created until a month later. YouTube would not get its first video upload for more than a year. George W. Bush was still in his first presidency.
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