NASA Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record

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Submission + - NASA Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record (nasa.gov)

Submitted by schwit1 on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @09:01AM

schwit1 writes: With a drive of 157 feet on Sunday, the Mars rover Opportunity broke the Soviet record, set by Lunokhod 2 in 1973, for the longest distance traveled by a vehicle on another planet.

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