Dust lulled the Mars rover Opportunity

In June, NASA reported that a dust storm had visited the Red Planet, preventing the Opportunity rover from continuing and causing the robot to go to sleep. This happened automatically, because the functioning of the device depends on the presence of sunlight.

At the time of writing this information, the fate of the honored was still uncertain. Ray Arvidson, deputy chief, stated in a July 2018 edition that the storm is "global in nature and continues to rage." However, Arvidson believes that a vehicle immune to such events has a chance of surviving the storm even if it lasts several months, which is not unusual on Mars.

Opportunity, or Mars Exploration Rover-B (MER-B), has been operating on the surface of the Red Planet for fifteen years, although only a 90-day mission was originally planned. At the same time, the dual Spirit mission, officially known as Mars Exploration Rover-A, or MER-A for short, was being carried out. However, the Spirit rover sent its last signals to Earth in March 2010.