00:00 On this day in space.
00:03 On January 25, 2004, NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars.
00:08 This was the second of NASA's twin Mars exploration rovers to land on the Red Planet.
00:13 Its counterpart, the Spirit rover, arrived just three weeks earlier.
00:17 Opportunity is now the longest running Mars rover mission.
00:20 It was only intended to last 90 days,
00:23 but the rover has been trekking around on the Red Planet for more than 50 times its expected lifetime.
00:27 Over the years, Opportunity has found meteorites on Mars,
00:31 observed dust storms, and looked for clues about the presence of water in Mars' ancient past.
00:36 And that's what happened on this day in space.
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