Yup, we’ll be going over the incredible data from HST for many years to come.
BTW, Opportunity was to last about 90 days after landing in 2004.
3000+ days later and thousands of images, and traveling about 24 miles....And it’s still in operation.
Wiki says the two rovers sent back over 250,000 images.
And AFAIK there are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of hi-res images taken from the various orbiters. And many of those, I suspect, have never really been studied in any detail.
People will call me a fruit-loop, but I think the goal of this mission is to announce they found life.
Because I’m pretty convinced by the history of things that they ALREADY found it and have been trying to figure out a way to tell us.
Cripes, there’s probably 50 species of lichens on Earth that would do perfectly well up there.