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Monday, January 25, 2010

Six graceful years

Two excellent rovers landed on Mars in January 2004. Opportunity(MER-B) Mars Exploration Rover - B, is one of them which landed on Mars on 25th January 2004 05:05 Ground UTC (circa 13:15 local time). The first rover Spirit(MER-A) landed on Mars three weeks before MER-B, on other side of Mars on 04:35 Ground UTC on January 4, 2004.

The original mission was planned for 90 sols(day on mars), but amazingly these excellent rovers have completed 6 glorious earth years. Today is the 6th earth anniversary of MER-B, yes the rover "Opportunity" is completing 6 earth years(2135 sols) on Mars. No doubt its a big achievement..

On this occasion, I would like to give my Regards and Congratulations to NASA for there tremendous creativity and initiatives.

References: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html; http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?MCode=MER_B; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_rover

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