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jan 25 Learn More Space Rover Lands on Mars


Opportunity, a robotic space rover, landed on Mars on this day in 2004. So far, the rover has discovered meteorites, survived hellacious dust storms, and studied both the Victoria and Endeavour craters, but has encountered zero Martians, which must make scientists very angry, very angry indeed. It makes sci-fi authors, on the other hand, thrilled.

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