This is the Final Photograph from Opportunity (Mars)

Universe Today ^ | 3/14/19 | Evan Gough

[COBOL2Java]

These are the final two photographs from Opportunity...

[LibWhacker]

Lol!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Are those selfies?

[justrepublican]

Applicable on this planet as well.”However, Opportunity relies on solar panels to keep its batteries charged.”

[Slyfox]

In 1976, I was at NASA in Houston when the Viking mission landed and I saw the first images as they came through. The relay of the images were done in vertical strips and Viking was very slow to send them.

While on the tour I noticed a table in a corner where they had a small display of their new program they were working on called, "The Space Shuttle." They showed a plastic plane-looking like deal sitting on top of a commercial jet.

It was in the words of Spock, "fascinating."

[COBOL2Java]

Are those selfies?

We were told it crashed

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Perhaps it crashed while getting into position for a dramatic selfie? No, it’s a machine. Only humans would be that dumb.

[Buckeye McFrog]

That looks amazingly like any desert on Earth.
Creation is awesome!

[blam]

"With the mission originally planned to last 90 days, the 5,111-day Oportunity mission is, perhaps, the best return-on-investment any government program has ever seen."

You can mostly thank solid state electronics, chips.

[Sans-Culotte]

Wow, that’s great!

[Rurudyne]

To paraphrase, Dilbert for years has in every city the comics pages, being read every day.

[SunkenCiv]

LOL! You’re on a roll.

[tet68]

We’ll know when space travel becomes mundane and an
everyday occurrence when it’s covered in graffiti.

The favorite drink of the Mars colonists?

The MarsTini a mix of gin, vermouth, and rocket fuel.
Stirred, not shaken. Too dangerous to shake.

[sparklite2]

A Mars Rover's Lament

All day I faced the Martian waste without the taste of water;
cool water.

At JPL the jerks at work sip Evian: I die for water;
cool clear water.

The nights are cold and I've been told each star's
a pool of water; cool water.

But with the dawn I'll switch back on
and MastCamBate for water; cool water.

Load an infra-scan; exploration is the plan;
you're a robot not a man and the broken rocks can stand for water; cool clear water.

MRO, can't you see that big green tree
where water's runnin' free and it's waiting there for

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[sparklite2]

I was running a pro photo lab in Canada during the Viking landings. I called NASA and asked if I could have a set of slides from the Viking pictures. They said they normally wouldn’t provide those for people outside the country, but they did it anyway, for free.

I made 40x60 enlargements from them as office decor. They were stunning.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

And they are STILL conducting science.

[Slyfox]

Cool!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Thankyouverymuch. I’ll be here all night. Don’t forget to tip your veal and order the waitress.

[SunkenCiv]

There's no need to tip the waitress, her name is Eileen...

[fieldmarshaldj]

"There's no need to tip the waitress, her name is Eileen..."