NASAs Mars rover Opportunity completes a marathon on Mars in 11 years 2 months

#marsrover #NASA #Opportunity #space #redplanet A marathon means 26.2-miles and the reading on the odometer of Mars rover Opportunity now reads 26.2-miles – hence, one can safely say that Opportunity has completed a marathon. Only, it has taken 11-years and 2-months to complete this marathon – it had landed on Mars in 2004 for a three-month prime mission.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 25 March 2015.

In the course of its travel over the surface of the Red Planet, it yielded evidence of environments with liquid water soaking the ground and flowing on the surface of the planet. Both Opportunity and its twin Spirit, had succeeded in uncovering geologic signs of ancient water. But, Spirit's mission ended in 2011 soon after it got stuck in Martian sand.
Opportunity crossed the marathon distance of 26.219 miles (42.195 kilometers) with a drive completed on March 24, 2015 – this happened during the 3,968th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's work on the Red Planet Mars.

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