Happy 10th Aniversary Opportunity
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 15:50
in Astronomy & Space
Ten years ago, on Jan. 24, 2004, the Opportunity rover landed on a flat plain in the southern highlands of the planet Mars and rolled into an impact crater scientists didn't even know existed. Cheered on by enthusiastic students, Ray Arvidson, deputy principal investigator of the dual-rover mission, recently took an audience on a whirlwind tour of the rover's adventures over the next 10 years.