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On Tuesday morning engineers played Spirit's twin rover Opportunity a lighthearted wake-up call: the song Slip Sliding Away by Paul Simon.
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These observations contrast sharply with the findings of Mars rover Opportunity, which landed on a different part of Mars in 2004 and is still chugging along.
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The rover is built to run for two years, but a previous rover, Opportunity, has been working on Mars since 2004, well beyond the three months NASA planned.
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The rover is supposed to run for two years, but a previous rover, Opportunity, has been working on Mars since 2004 -- well beyond the three months NASA planned.
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Opportunity's sister rover, Spirit, ran from 2004 to 2010.
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Having written the rover simulation, driven Opportunity for three years, and practiced in the Mars Yard, Tompkins was at one with her software.
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Squyres says more recent rover data confirms a watery history at Opportunity's landing site.
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"You take what Mars gives you, " said Squyres, also the lead scientist on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission, which includes Spirit and Opportunity.
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The proposal currently being discussed is that ExoMars should be joined by a slightly smaller rover in the class of the US Spirit and Opportunity vehicles that are on the surface today.
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Opportunity has seen similar small structures out on Mars' Meridiani plains, which the rover team nicknamed "blueberries".
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Before Curiosity, NASA's big rover project was the Mars Exploration Rover Mission: two golf-cart-sized rovers called Spirit and Opportunity.
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Opportunity landed on the Red Planet in January 2004, about three weeks after its "twin", the Spirit rover.
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