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Opportunity did not answer NASA’s final call, and it’s now lost to us

Wednesday February 13, 2019. 03:40 PM , from Ars Technica
Enlarge / The Opportunity rover leaves its landing site in Eagle Crater on Mars back in 2004. (credit: NASA)
Late Tuesday night, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent their final data uplink to the Opportunity rover on Mars. Over this connection, via the Deep Space Network, the American jazz singer Billie Holiday crooned 'I'll Be Seeing You,' a song that closes with the lines:
I'll find you in the morning sunAnd when the night is newI'll be looking at the moonBut I'll be seeing you
The scientists waited to hear some response from their long-silent rover, which had been engulfed in a global dust storm last June, likely coating its solar panels in a fatal layer of dust. Since then, the team of scientists and engineers has sent more than 835 commands, hoping the rover will wake up from its long slumber—that perhaps winds on Mars might have blown off some of the dust that covered the panels.
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