11 Years on Mars

[JohnBoucher]

This is truly amazing. Opportunity is still going after 11 years on the job. Awesome NASA!!!!

From Gizmodo (http://gizmodo.com/nasas-opportunity-has-now-explored-the-martian-surface-1681632120?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_faceboo k&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow)

[Richard Wallace]

Oh. Just oh.

Some tidbits from the 2004 landing video:

~1:37 -- "We're on Mars, everybody!

~1:38 -- "Copy that!"

~1:52 -- Smiling Dave Lavery passes quickly across the bottom of the screen,

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Einstein would be anticlimax after this. And more than a decade later, Dave's Other Car is still on Mars; still going, and going, and going.