A robot built to last three months became a monument to human ingenuity and Martian luck—until the storm that no one could engineer away. Opportunity reached Mars with a requirement to survive 90 Martian days and drive at least 600 metres. When it finally stopped speaking, it had worked for more than 14 years and its odometer read 45.16 kilometres. Those numbers make the rover sound al... [9068 chars]
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