Our Mars explorers are really clocking up the miles–Opportunity recently completed a marathon on the red planet with 26.3 miles to date, and Curiosity is catching up fast with 6.2 miles on the odometer. Both missions are well past their expected end dates and show no signs of stopping!
Spirit and Opportunity’s goals are to search for and characterize a wide range of rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity on Mars. Curiosity carries the biggest, most advanced suite of instruments for scientific studies ever sent to the Martian surface to assess what the martian environment was like in the past.
Learn more about the Spirit and Opportunity rovers here.
Learn more about the Curiosity rover here.
