This 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 ...

Related: How Spirit and Opportunity changed Mars exploration forever The intrepid rovers set about their work to look for evidence of past water on Mars, finding this and much, much more.

When Powell led a three-boat expedition through ... but a European orbiter called Mars Express arrived safely. So did Spirit and then, three weeks later, Opportunity. After slamming into the ...

No one can speak more knowledgeably or eloquently about NASA's Mars Exploration ... decided that "Spirit," the MER launched on June 10, 2003, will land in Gusev Crater, and "Opportunity," launched ...

NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to land on the Red Planet. The other was named Opportunity. These rovers were ...

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on April 19 ... NASA’s Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity rovers stopped working years ago. NASA's Opportunity rover's 2005 image of the remains of the heat shield ...

A day, or Sol, on Mars lasts 24 hours and 39 minutes. The robot looks a lot like Nasa's Spirit and Opportunity vehicles from the 2000s. It weighs some 240kg and is powered by fold-out solar panels.