“NASA’s Mars Rover Is Declared Dead After 15 Years of Exploration ‘Rest Well, Rover'” is the title of an article written by “Jason Duaine Hahn” at the “PEOPLE Magazine” is one of the tens of tenth of titles picked up by almost all American media chief editors when a couple of hours ago they heard the last signals of the “Opportunity Rover” and the official declaration of the death of the most beloved robotic rovers in astronomical activities of NASA.
The news was too short: “After nearly a decade and a half of adventure, the Opportunity’s mission on the red planet has come to an end.”. The Opportunity Rover which at the start of its mission had a life expectancy of 90 days multiplied its survival by 90 and remained and reported from MARS till a couple of hours ago. Of course OR was silent after a very high speed storm that covered its solar panels with a lot of dusts. OR launched in 2004 and announced dead on Feb. 13th 2019 by the NASA president.
When heard about it the CEO of the PIMI wrote a short message at his Tweeter: Dear Rover; Thanks for all your devotions to our planet striking semi-humankinds. Rest and relax over Mars. Who knows? May be one day, someone will awake you from your long period sleeping. The day, I am sure, you will be cleaned and moving away. Rover you were so strong and multiplied your life expectancy by 90 fold voluntarily. You did and deed a lot and need a good relaxation and sleeping. I keep your first selfie till you awake.
Saatnia did it because not only he loves flying but he had also was interested to astronomy after his visit to “ESA” before launching of the Space Station and shooting a selfie with it. Also, he beleive that before advancement of polymers it has not been possible for the humankind to improve at this level, and Rover had a lot of polymers inside and outside its machine.
The American Reactions
Many American media started to salute the Rover by lovely and emotionally. First have a look to the video of death declaration of the Opportunity Rover.
Some American media reactions:
The People Magazine
On Tuesday night, NASA made a final effort to communicate with the Opportunity rover, which had gone silent since June 2018 when a powerful storm hit Mars and likely left the machine’s solar panels covered in dust. When their attempts once again failed to generate a signal, the agency was compelled to make the heartbreaking the announcement that the robot — which had traveled miles through the Martian landscape and sent back awe-inspiring pictures during its 15-year mission — was officially dead.
“You were, and are, the Opportunity of a lifetime,” NASA tweeted Wednesday morning. “Rest well, rover. Your mission is complete.”
Opportunity, along with its sister robot, Spirit, landed on Mars in 2004, for a mission that was initially expected to last 90 Martian days. But Opportunity far exceeded its expected lifespan and durability and traversed more than 28 miles along the planet when scientists only intended for it to travel just over a thousand yards.
Together with Spirit, the rover helped NASA better understand our celestial neighbor. In one of the most significant discoveries of the last decade, Opportunity found evidence in 2014 that Mars was once the home to water that could have supported life.
After Spirit’s mission ended in 2011, Opportunity continued to explore the Mars’ surface and sent back majestic pictures that were often shared to the Twitter page dedicated to the rovers, which may have already helped to inspire the next generation of space explorers who may one day visit the planet.
“It is because of trailblazing missions such as Opportunity that there will come a day when our brave astronauts walk on the surface of Mars,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said, according to an announcement on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s website.
“And when that day arrives,” Bridenstine continued, “some portion of that first footprint will be owned by the men and women of Opportunity, and a little rover that defied the odds and did so much in the name of exploration.”
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Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said the agency is planning to send another rover to the red planet in 2020.
“For more than a decade, Opportunity has been an icon in the field of planetary exploration, teaching us about Mars’ ancient past as a wet, potentially habitable planet, and revealing uncharted Martian landscapes,” Zurbuchen said. “Whatever loss we feel now must be tempered with the knowledge that the legacy of Opportunity continues.”
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NASA’s other rover, Curiosity, is now the lone functioning rover on the 4,200-mile wide planet. With billionaire’s like Elon Musk and Richard Branson leading the way for future space exploration, it may not be long until someone is able to pay Opportunity a visit where it now rests in a section of the planet called “Perseverance Valley.”
“I cannot think of a more appropriate place for Opportunity to endure on the surface of Mars than one called Perseverance Valley,” JPL director Michael Watkins said on the laboratory’s website. “The records, discoveries and sheer tenacity of this intrepid little rover is testament to the ingenuity, dedication, and perseverance of the people who built and guided her.”
TIME MagazineIt was a melancholy experience the day my wife and I at last junked our first daughter’s first stroller. It had negotiated the potholes of New York City, the tectonically fractured sidewalks of Mexico City, and the tooth-rattling cobblestones of Marbella, Spain. So when we at last rolled it to the trash pick-up spot in the basement of our apartment building, one of us said, “Farewell Aquarius, and we thank you.”
Those, of course, were the words spoken by the Apollo 13 crew in 1970 when they jettisoned the lunar module that had served as their lifeboat on the way back to Earth after an explosion crippled their command module. Admittedly, my wife and I had gotten carried away with our invocation of those famously elegiac words for so humble a thing as a stroller. But in both cases, those words said something about the love that human beings come to feel for inanimate machines that will never be able to love them in return.
The same sweet sentiments, the same respectful encomia, are being voiced today with the announcement that NASA has at last shut down the operations of its venerable Opportunity rover. The golf cart-sized robot landed on Mars in 2004, plugged along for 15 years (exceeding its minimum 90-day life expectancy 60-fold) and, in its long and productive life, traveled across more than 28 miles of the Martian landscape, returned more than 217,000 images and established the now-accepted scientific truth that Mars was once a watery planet like Earth, shot through with rivers and sloshing with seas and oceans. Water, of course, is the sine qua non for life as we know it.
Like so many spacecraft, Opportunity was unapologetically anthropomorphized throughout its life. On the evening of Feb. 12, several months after NASA lost contact with the rover, science reporter Jacob Margolis of KPCC in Southern California poignantly tweeted that its final transmission was the digital equivalent of “My battery is low and it’s getting dark.”
