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Spirit & Opportunity

2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent

Spirit & Opportunity

Found extensive evidence of ancient watery environments.

Era 4 of 6 · full record in the catalog

Launch
7 Jul 2003
Lead / partner
United States
Target
Mars
Category
Mars rovers
Status
Success
Vehicle
unknown
Mass
unknown
Orbit / trajectory
unknown

Why it happened

Spirit & Opportunity flew during 2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent, as part of United States's work toward mars. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.

The mission

The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Found extensive evidence of ancient watery environments.

Results

Found extensive evidence of ancient watery environments.

Related missions

Spirit & Oppo… Mars Express / Beagle 2 — same_target Mars Express … Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — same_target Mars Reconnai… Mars Odyssey — same_target Mars Odyssey Phoenix — same_target Phoenix

Sources & image credits

  • Image credit: NASA · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-22)
  • Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
  • Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog