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Opportunity has completed the ninety days of its planned mission * like Spirit, it will also receive an extension

Avi Blizovsky

A section of an almost true-color panorama image from the area known as "The Lion King" shows Eagle Crater and the surrounding highlands, in a meridian plane on Mars. The image was taken by Opportunity and released by NASA on April 14

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"Opportunity", the second space vehicle sent by the American space agency, NASA, to Mars, completed its first mission on the planet last night.
NASA officials said that the spacecraft will likely continue performing its missions on Mars until September. "We can, are ready and want to continue to explore the star and activate Opportunity to carry out more extensive research," officials at the space agency said tonight.
As of today, two vehicles - Opportunity and its twin Spirit - have already completed all the tasks that NASA required of them before they landed. Now the agency defines the dual mission as a success.
Each vehicle traveled a distance of 1,980 feet, took color stereo panoramas of its surroundings, and traveled to at least eight sites. Both vehicles operated on Mars simultaneously for 60 days in opposite regions of the equator.
Spirit (see link) is already in time extension. Today, Wednesday is his 114th day on Mars.
The purpose of the mission, which cost 835 million dollars, was to explore Mars and find geological evidence of Mars' wet past, which at the time could also have supported life. Opportunity found such evidence. Spirit, on the other hand, found evidence of only limited amounts of water in Mars' wet past.

Spirit has completed its planned lifetime * will continue to operate until September
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