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Work on the Mars Exploration Rover program followed two ... Section A, Page 23 of the New York edition with the headline: Peter C. Theisinger, 78, Who Led Way in Putting Rovers on Mars, Dies.
P ete Theisinger, the longtime employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who led the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rover missions to Mars, died June 26 after a long illness. He was 78.
NASA's Opportunity Rover has died on Mars. The little solar-paneled robot apparently ran out of battery power during the Red Planet's awesome 2018 dust storm, and after one last attempt to contact ...
Peter Theisinger worked on missions to six planets and landed three NASA rovers on Mars. Colleagues remember him as a giant at JPL, where he made a major mark over 50 years.
On Feb. 13, 2019 at 2 p.m. ET, NASA announced that the long-lived Opportunity rover was dead. It will spend the next millennia collecting dust on Mars.
NASA’s Opportunity Rover Dies on Mars By JONATHAN CORUM FEB. 13, 2019 Opportunity bounced to a stop on the Martian surface in 2004 and roamed from crater to crater for 14 years.
Nasa has revealed the last thing its Opportunity rover saw on Mars – and the view that marks its final resting place.. The image shows what Opportunity saw before it was swallowed up in a dust ...
Mars Rovers Mars orbiter snaps 1st image of Curiosity rover ... Opportunity and Spirit were only expected to last 90 days on Mars. Spirit died of the Martian cold in 2010. Opportunity made it ...
Over 25 years, remotely controlled rovers have uncovered Mars’ watery history and continue to search for evidence that life once existed there. ... Opportunity died in a dust storm, ...
Emanuel A. “Emil” Skrabek, a Baltimore-born spacecraft engineer who co-invented a thermoelectric material that powered the Mars Curiosity Rover and other deep-space probes, died at his home in ...