The dust storm on Mars grew from a small, local storm into a massive event over the course of the last two weeks. Opportunity is located near the middle of the storm, while the newer rover ...

"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary ...

A dust storm has reduced sunlight and visibility on Mars. But NASA's Curiosity rover, seen in a self-portrait taken last week in the Gale Crater, runs on nuclear energy and is powering through.

This series of simulated Mars rover Opportunity images shows how conditions have changed around the NASA rover as a huge dust storm has intensified (from left to right) throughout June 2018 ...

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has been quiet for 80 days, but that doesn't mean the plucky robot is dead. ... 2018, forced into a sort of hibernation by a powerful dust storm.

It shows the growing dust storm and a blue dot indicating the rover's approximate location. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter first noticed the storm building back on June 1. The MRO team warned the ...

Opportunity has seen a lot in its time on Mars — including another powerful dust storm, which the rover weathered in 2007. During that storm, Opportunity went silent for a four-day stretch ...

NASA’s Opportunity rover became one of the most successful interplanetary missions in human history. However, that incredible journey came to a dramatic end in 2019 after 15 years of record-breaking ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover noticed this summer's monster dust storm fairly early on — but not in the way you might expect. The storm was first spotted from above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance ...

"One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA's Opportunity rover mission is at an end ...

Despite conditions that have deprived the Opportunity Mars rover of solar power, NASA officials said June 13 that they expected the long-lived spacecraft to survive an intense ongoing dust storm.

Right now, NASA’s Opportunity rover is doing its best to weather an intense dust storm on the surface of Mars — one that could prevent the robot from ever phoning Earth again.