Opportunity, NASA's other Mars rover, has tooled around the red planet for so long it's easy to forget it's still alive... Opportunity this week quietly embarks on its tenth year of exploration -- a sweet milestone since it was only tasked to work for three months.

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NASA said on Tuesday that it was abandoning efforts to get back in touch with Spirit, one of the two rovers on Mars.

However, Opportunity is still going strong, five years after it landed on Mars, on its way to (what else?) a crater for more exploration.

Opportunity continues the trek towards Endeavour crater with less than 3.5 kilometers (2.17 ( Read more... )

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Who'd of thunk the Mars rovers would STILL be roving?