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NASA Will Keep Trying to Revive the Silent Mars Rover Opportunity Through January
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | October 30, 2018 07:00am ET
The clock hasn't run out on NASA's Opportunity Mars rover after all.
On Sept. 11, NASA began a 45-day "active listening" campaign in an attempt to rouse the solar-powered Opportunity, which went silent on June 10 after a raging dust storm plunged its environs into darkness.
The 45-day deadline passed late last week. But NASA will continue active listening — a strategy that involves both sending commands to Opportunity and listening for any peeps the six-wheeled robot may make — for several more months at least, agency officials announced yesterday (Oct. 29). [Mars Dust Storm 2018: What It Means for Opportunity Rover]
"After a review of the progress of the listening campaign, NASA will continue its current strategy for attempting to make contact with the Opportunity rover for the foreseeable future," NASA officials wrote in a mission update yesterday (Oct. 29).
More:
https://www.space.com/42288-nasa-keeps-hailing-mars-rover-opportunity.html
