Opportunity Rover - Scientific Findings

Scientific Findings

Main article: Scientific information from the Mars Exploration Rover mission

Opportunity has provided substantial evidence in support of the mission's primary scientific goals: to search for and characterize a wide range of rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity on Mars. In addition to investigating the "water hypothesis", Opportunity has also obtained astronomical observations and atmospheric data.

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