Opportunity bounced to a stop on the Martian surface in 2004 and roamed from crater to crater for 14 years. A huge dust storm that wrapped around the planet last June covered the rover’s solar panels and left engineers struggling for months to regain contact. But the huge storm that hit in June 2018 obscured the sun for days and blanketed the rover with dust and grit. Five months after Opportunity went silent, NASA landed another spacecraft on Mars. The InSight lander does not rove as Opportunity did, but will instead stand still and probe the inner structure of the planet.

Source: New York Times February 13, 2019 18:56 UTC