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NASA's "Opportunity" vehicle, designed to travel to Mars for three months, has stopped connecting to Earth after 15 years of service, officials said.
Engineers lost contact with the solar powered vehicle on June 10 during a dusty storm that swept Mars. Since then, NASA officials have repeatedly tried to reach the six-wheeled vehicle the size of a golf cart.
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Officials said that Aportionite's equipment may have been disturbed by the storm, while the vehicle was in a place called Preserveance Valley and was blocking the sunlight needed to power the solar panels.
The vehicle was originally designed to travel one kilometer, but eventually traveled 45 kilometers and continued on Mars longer than any other robot sent to the red planet.
On Tuesday (February 12), the engineers sent out new operating orders for a final attempt to reactivate the vehicle, but they received no signals, said Thomas Zorbuchin, director of the scientific working group of the The NASA.
"So here I am with a deep sense of gratitude and gratitude for the completion of the Opportunity mission," Zorbochin said during an interview at the California Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA said that during its exploration of the surface of Mars, the vehicle had gathered evidence that the planet was wet and hot enough to live, including the discovery of white veins in the metal gypsum, an indicator of the movement of the planet. 39 water through the underground cracks.
Aprontity landed on Mars in January 2004, a few weeks after the Spirit, which ended its mission in 2010 after being suspended in loose soil.
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