Cathy Huynh - Opportunity, NASA’s record-setting Mars rover, is declared dead after 15 years

Summary: The rover's mission was to uncover conditions for life on mars. Opportunity's historic mission, which uncovered signs of Mars' past with water, transformed our understanding of Mars, is finally coming to an end due to system failure of power loss due to during a catastrophic planetside dust storm that engulfed the rover last summer. Opportunity's mission planned to last 90 days, says Nasa.

Source: Opportunity, NASA’s record-setting Mars rover, is declared dead after 15 years

Analysis: this article was written by Sarah Kaplan and published Feb. 13. Interesting that I was only 1 when Opportunity was launched. It gave us a fundamental step to migrating humans there. The desire to move to Mars van connect to Southern and eastern Europeans moving to America in the late 1800's.