Last month, NASA announced that it had finally abandoned attempts to reconnect with its Opportunity probe on Mars. The probe had cut off all communication since June 10, 2018 and since then, the engineers have been trying to re-establish contact, but after doing everything it could, NASA had to resolve to declare its probe as officially dead.
Opportunity landed on Mars on January 24, 2004, it will have covered more than 45.16 km during its mission over more than 14 years, while its initial mission was to last only 90 days with only 1 km to complete. Several incidents had slowed down the extended mission of the probe, including failures in certain memory modules.
NASA recently shared what will remain the latest Opportunity panorama. A 360 ° image made up of no less than 354 photos taken by the rover between May 13 and June 10, 2018. We (re) discover the view from the "Perseverance Valley".
The solar powered probe has not recovered from a gigantic dust storm that swept across much of the surface of Mars. However, it bequeaths to us invaluable discoveries.
