Rolling up to the crater’s edge, the Opportunity rover took in a landscape unlike anything any Earthling had ever seen. The cause was system failure precipitated by power loss during a catastrophic, planetwide dust storm that engulfed the Mars rover last summer. Engineers perform a driving test with the Opportunity rover in November 2002. Since 2016, she has served as the deputy project scientist for the Opportunity mission. NASA’s next rover mission, which will seek out signs of ancient life, will launch in 2020.

Source: Washington Post February 13, 2019 19:00 UTC