"NASA's Opportunity" Rover has just celebrated its 13 years of untiring and continuous adventure in the red planet Mars. Sending most valuable video coverage back to Earth is the rover's job since its arrival on Mars back in the night of January 24, 2004 at JPL headquarters. Who would have known "Opportunity" can last this long and who knows it could survived another 13 long years.

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 "NASA's Opportunity" Rover is a robot about the size of a golf cart with six wheels. It has a sister called "Spirit", which landed on the other side of Mars two week earlier. The two rovers were sent on a 90-day mission to look and record for signs of water activity in the planet. It was reported by Space, that Opportunity and its sister Spirit did find enormous evidence of Mars warmer and wetter environment in the past compared to the present.

On this day in 2004, NASA's Opportunity rover landed on #Mars! Here’s what this rover discovered: https://t.co/vTVHzYxDiT pic.twitter.com/pmVcmz7fFd

— NASA Space Place (@nasaspaceplace) January 25, 2017

According to Zeenews, unlike its sister "NASA's Opportunity", Spirit had stopped sending video coverage to Earth in March 2010. It got stuck on a soft sand and could not recharge its solar panels that led to its death a year later. On the contrary, Opportunity has continued its journey covering a total of 43.79 kilometers or 27.31 miles as of January 17, 2017.

"NASA's Opportunity" rover continue to roll on Mars' soil even if its warranty had long expired 13 years ago. In spite of a defect in its robotic arm and with problems in its flash memory, it continued to give records particularly on its distance traveled. Presently, Opportunity carries on with its job of exploring the 14-mile-wide Endeavor Crater, since August 2001.

It can be recalled that Opportunity landed in Mars after midnight of January 25, 2004 EST. For Telegiz followers out there, stay tuned for more updates on Mars explorations.