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A Round of Applause for Opportunity

Scientists and engineers who worked on NASA’s Opportunity rover give mission leadership a round of applause in Mission Control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

April 01, 2019

Scientists and engineers who worked on NASA’s Opportunity rover give mission leadership a round of applause in Mission Control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The team meeting took place on Feb. 12, 2019, shortly before Mission Controllers made their last attempts to listen to Opportunity’s signals from Mars.

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