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

Rolling up to the crater’s edge, the Opportunity rover took in a landscape unlike anything any Earthling had ever seen. A vast, meteorite-blasted expanse of volcanic rock and iron oxide extended for 15 miles, ringed by rugged mountains under a dusky orange sky. In months to come, the enterprising robot would uncover signs that warm, liquid water had altered these ancient rocks — evidence that the conditions for life once existed on Mars. Oppy is now dead but left a legacy and milestones behind tr.