MER-B or the Opportunity
On June 10 and July 3, 2003, NASA launched the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) to Mars in order to search for answers regarding the history of water on the planet. The two rovers that were launched were designated as MER -- A and MER-B, Spirit and Opportunity respectively, and landed on Mars on January 3 and January 24, 2004, respectively. This Mars Exploration Rover mission has been designed to provide long-term information to Earth through robotic exploration of Mars. Chief among the mission's scientific goals "is to search for and characterize a wide range of rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity on Mars" (Summary, n.d.). As of 2010, the MER-B, or Opportunity, is the only active rover on Mars as MER-A, or the Spirit, ceased communications in 2010 after becoming immobile in 2009.
The Opportunity is currently still in orbit and continues to transmit images to NASA. The projected landing sites for the Mars Exploration Rovers were Gusev Crater and Meridiani Planum ( Summary, n.d.). The Mars Exploration Rovers, MER -- A and MER-B, were both equipped with airbags which allowed them to begin taking photographs as soon as they landed on the red planet. The images that these rovers have taken have allowed scientists to study and better understand the history of water on Mars. The images help scientists to determine which geographical sites should be further explored.
Presently, the Opportunity is managed by the Jet Propulsion Lab, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California on behalf of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover project that is overseen by the Office of Space Science in Washington, D.C. (Krebs, 2011).
There are seven main objectives of the Mars Exploration Rover mission. The first objective is to search and characterize various rocks and soils that may hold clues to past water activity on the planet; the samples that are sought through this first objective will include "those that have minerals deposited by water-related processes such as precipitation, evaporation, sedimentary cementation, or hydrothermal activity" (Objectives, n.d.). The second objective of the MER mission...
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