On January 3, 2004, Mars Exploration Rover Spirit he began to make history. It touched the Red Planet for the first time, launching one of NASA’s longest and most successful missions – and helping our simple earthlings better understand the wonderful universe we live in.
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Spirit his twin joined him Opportunity three weeks later and together, the two rovers discovered the possibility of water on the planet as a result of rock testing. The landing place for the second rover seemed to have the same qualities as the seabed.
The primary mission was to last only 90 messengers, or 90 Martian days, but the rovers were so robust that they walked around the planet for several years collecting data.
To give you an example of how much Spirit he did, let’s talk at a distance. NASA intended to cover only 600 m or 0.4 miles. Instead, he registered 7.73 kmor 4.8 miles. As a result, NASA has managed to collect tons of geological information about the planet, much more than expected. This is the mission that allowed people to start dreaming of colonizing Mars.
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I learned so much. We learned that Mars has dust devils just like us on Earth. We were able to better map the surface of Mars, along with a better understanding of the types of materials that each section was composed of. It was a wonderful mission in every sense of the word.
Unfortunately, on 1 May 2009, Spirit he got stuck in soft sand. It wasn’t the first time it happened on a mission, and the rover managed to serve as a stationary analysis tool for a while, while NASA tried to figure out how to detach it. That never happened. On January 26, 2010, NASA announced that it would probably never be moved. Opportunity continued to explore.
Just two months later, Spirit stopped transmitting NASA. Fourteen months later, NASA announced that it was no longer trying to contact the rover, calling its mission complete.