The Last Images We Will Ever Receive from the Spirit Spacecraft on Mars!
It’s time for a cosmic anniversary: NASA’s Spirit rover landed on the dusty surface of Mars almost exactly 21 years ago, revolutionizing our knowledge of the Red Planet! In fact, the golf-cart-sized rover was originally tasked with searching for traces of water on Mars – and it ultimately fulfilled its mission with flying colors!
Since then, we have learned that the reddish-shimmering celestial body was by no means always as dry as a bone as had long been assumed – and yet the Spirit mission also had a series of rather unpleasant incidents in store!
Unfortunately, contact with the probe was suddenly lost in March 2010 – and since NASA experts were unable to re-establish the connection in the period that followed, the mission was forced to end the following year. Fortunately, Spirit was not alone in exploring alien worlds – its sister probe, Opportunity, was built in the same way and would continue to examine Mars under the microscope until June 2018!
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