Opportunity

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My battery is low and it is getting dark out… :(. Super sad to see the end of this mighty little rover.
https://apple.news/A_ku9NXM4QrqoJKlP1pLXoA

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Awww . . . RIP and thank you, Opportunity.

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15 years and 28 miles is pretty darn great for that steely-eyed rover. =((

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I’m not crying you’re crying.

https://xkcd.com/695/

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I’m really not ok about this. I’m unreasonably upset about it.

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Me, too. We don’t have an emoji as sad as I feel.

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I was listening to audio today from the day it landed. Amazing.

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Was that from Opportunity? I’ve heard the Insight recording made last year.

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There’s grainy video of the Opportunity landing on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daiUW_O6gOM

Edit: Here’s less grainy and longer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZqaLTkRbv0

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I apologize in advance for this: I am embarrassed to say I read the OP’s post and thought it had something to do with the Pacific Northwest’s Snowmaggedon. I thought someone’s power had been out for so long their electric car was dead, or something like that. (And I say that as someone who had read articles today about the Mars Rover’s death.)

I am so impressed that that little guy did his job for all these years, all alone in a strange place.

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Man… so proud of NASA. Money well spent!! Sad day.

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=D> :((

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So it will now be space junk? Somehow, that bothers me.

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I think of it as more of a monument. I am 100% certain when humans get to Mars, they will eventually hunt Oppy down. Might be a Mars museum on that site someday. :slight_smile:

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You never know; they thought Mark Watney was dead in The Martian. Maybe Opportunity is off somewhere trying to grow potatoes.

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I know, right? Inexplicably sad for some reason.

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@intparent, yes, from Opportunity. NPR did a piece on it. Here it is: https://www.npr.org/2019/02/13/654737444/nasas-mars-rover-opportunity-is-officially-declared-dead

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So I don’t think Oppy could send sound. Lots of pictures and electronic messages, of course. My favorite is when they had it take a bunch of pictures of itself to put together a “selfie” at the 5000 SOL mark.

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2018/20180420-opportunity-selfie-5000.html

Here is the first “sound” from Mars we’ve heard, I think:

https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/07/hear-wind-on-mars-first-time-nasa-insight-lander/