Category Archives: public service announcement
Rover & Out
Mars Rover selfie; Photo credit: NASA’s Opportunity Rover
NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover was designed to operate for just 90 days, but it ran on for 15 years. NASA officially declared Opportunity dead on Wednesday, after trying to wake up the little rover one final time.
Looking back on Mars’ Perseverance Valley; Photo credit: NASA’s Opportunity Rover
Opportunity has been silent since June 10 of last year, when a massive Martian dust storm engulfed Opportunity. The dust storm overtook the entire planet 10 days later, and that would have prevented the rover from using its solar panels to recharge its batteries.
The final message from Opportunity to NASA was “My battery is low and it’s getting dark.” Rest in peace, Opportunity.
NASA’s final wake up call to Opportunity was Billie Holiday’s “I’ll be seeing you”.
The Onion also had a final tribute to the golf cart sized explorer:
https://www.theonion.com/spacecraft-travel-from-all-over-galaxy-to-honor-end-of-1832602862
To all of the readers who swing by Circle to Circle from time to time, I wish you all nothing but the best in 2019.
Thanks for stopping by my little corner of the globe: End Of The Road, Alaska.
#OptOutside 2018
Alaska’s Denali Borough and Denali National Park have teamed up with REI’s #optoutside movement this post-Thanksgiving Friday. You won’t catch me in a store this weekend, but you might find me out on the trail.
See you outside. It should be close to 0F, plus or minus.
Creative Commons
Circle to Circle is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Like the Stories & Photos? Help Keep the Rover Rolling.
