That’ll do Oppy, that’ll do. 🥹 NASA’s Opportunity rover landed on Mars in 2004. The mission was only supposed to last 90 days but Opportunity kept going surviving harsh terrain and traveling 45.16 kilometers across the Red Planet. In June 2018, a global dust storm darkened the sky and the solar-powered rover fell silent. For months, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory called out… and heard nothing back. The final recovery attempt came on February 13, 2019… to no avail. Oppy’s mission

This footage shows NASA’s Perseverance rover descending through the Martian atmosphere and touching down on Mars. From the fiery entry to the parachute deployment and sky crane maneuver, it’s the first time humanity has seen a rover land on another world in such detail, turning a few terrifying minutes into history. | SpaceEve

The helicopter on Mars is called Ingenuity and it was sent with the Perseverance rover. It traveled inside the spacecraft during the long journey to Mars and was deployed after landing. Ingenuity uses fast spinning blades to fly in the thin Martian air and helps explore the surface from above. #space #spacex #nasa | Space Journey