Mars rover Coverage

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The documentary Good Night Oppy (2022) chronicles features images from Mars Exploration Rovers themselves as well as immersive views created by Industrial Light and Magic (Amazon Studios)

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Good Night Oppy, a documentary film directed by Ryan White and narrated by Angela Bassett, is available for streaming on Prime Video beginning Nov 23, 2022 (Amazon Studios)

"Good Night Oppy" is a feel good documentary about the Mars rovers and the people that kept them them rolling

Available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video on Wed Nov 23, "Good Night Oppy" tells the story of the Mars Exploration Rovers through the people who built, launched, and maintained them for 15 surprising years.

Tony Rice, NASA Ambassador

NASA thanks open-source software developers

Like most organizations, NASA makes use of open source software in its projects. JPL thanked the nearly 12,000 developers around the world who contributed to Python and other software packages that helped get the Ingenuity helicopter off the ground.

Tony Rice, NASA Ambassador

Sizing up the Perseverance rover's new home on Mars

What does the neighborhood around the Mars Perseverance rover's landing site look like? We overlay a Raleigh map on images of the parachute, heat sheild and other parts of the Perseverance rover's entry, descent and landing system captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Tony Rice, NASA Ambassador

From colors to Morse code, secret messages appear as Mars rover gets to work

NSA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are known to hide Easter eggs, or hidden messages, in plain sight.

Tony Rice, NASA Ambassador

NASA reveals new images of Mars' surface

NASA reveals new video, still images, and audio from the landing of the Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars.

Whats next for Perseverance

Sightseeing around the western edge of Mars' Jezero Crater where the Perseverance rover landed on Thursday.

Tony Rice, NASA Ambassador

First images of Mars begin coming from NASA rover

Over the next 30 days the Perseverance Rover will drill down into rock and soil collecting samples to bring back to Earth - in about 10 years. This will help determine if life ever existed on the red planet.

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Perseverance rover starts journey to Mars

The Perseverance rover launched on Thursday, July 30, at 7:50 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and will begin its long journey to Mars.

NASA's next Mars rover has new name from Virginia seventh grader

NASA held a contest to name its next Mars rover. A seventh grader from Virginia ended up as the winner with the name Perseverance.

NC students among semi-finalists to name NASA's new Mars rover

Three students from NC were selected as semi-finalists to name the Mars 2020 rover.

Tony Rice, WRAL contributor/NASA ambassador

NASA declares Mars rover dead

It explored the red planet for almost 15 years, but the rover known as Opportunity is no more.

NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a Nearly 15-Year Mission

Opportunity, the longest-lived robot ever sent from Earth to the surface of another planet, roamed the red plains of Mars for more than 14 years, snapping photos and revealing astonishing glimpses into the planet's distant past. But on Wednesday, NASA announced that the rover is dead.

Kenneth Chang, New York Times

Mars rover may have been lost forever in dust storm

The NASA Mars rover Opportunity was lost in a massive, global dust storm that began June 10.

Mars rover 'sleeping' through massive dust storm

The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity is asleep and waiting out a massive dust storm. Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., last heard from the rover on June 10 when it briefly phoned home to report its status.

Tony Rice, WRAL contributor/NASA Ambassador