NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover has been sitting still on Mars since June. It was then that a massive dust storm began to swallow up the planet, cutting of the sunlight to the rover’s solar panels and forcing it to go dormant. The Opportunity team has been waiting patiently for the rover to wake back up ever since, and when a signal identified as coming from Opportunity popped up on NASA’s Deep Space Network on Thursday it got a lot of people very excited.
Unfortunately, the signal, whatever it was, didn’t actually come from the troubled robot. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory quickly addressed the supposed communication, noting that “further investigation” revealed the signals weren’t actually from Opportunity at all.
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NASA thought it got a signal from the silent Opportunity rover, but it broke our hearts again originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 13:44:34 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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