Commentary: The little rover that could
by Usha Lee McFarling, Los Angeles Times
Feb 19, 2019
2 minutes
Opportunity, NASA's longest-living robotic Mars explorer, was declared dead last week. The tributes, poignant cartoons, emotional tweets and even love songs keep pouring in. I'm feeling surprisingly sad as well. I covered the building and launch of Opportunity, and its twin rover Spirit, for the Los Angeles Times 15 years ago, and I feel like I've lost a close
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