page_title: Opportunity (rover)
section_title: Superlatives
hierarchical_section_title: Opportunity (rover) / Superlatives
caption_attribution_description: English: Driving Distances by rovers on Mars and the Moon. Includes (from oldest to newest): Lunokhod 1, Apollo 15 Lunar Rover, Apollo 16 Lunar Rover, Apollo 17 Lunar Rover, Lunokhod 2, Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Yutu-1. Figures are accurate as of 13 February 2019. Additional information: Knapp, Alex&#32;(29 July 2014).&#32;"NASA's Opportunity Rover Sets A Record For Off-World Driving". Forbes. Wall, Mike&#32;(29 July 2014).&#32;"NASA's Mars rover Opportunity breaks off-world driving record". CBS News. Yutu: Qunzhi, Li&#32;(2014).&#32;A Priority Method of Cruise Direction for the Lunar Rover.&#32;65th International Astronomical Congress. 29 September-3 October 2014. Toronto, Canada. Sojourner: Sojourner.&#32;Michigan State University. Retrieved on 27 December 2014.
context_page_description: Opportunity, also known as MER-B or MER-1, and nicknamed "Oppy", is a robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 until the middle of 2018. Launched on July 7, 2003, as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover program, it landed in Meridiani Planum on January 25, 2004, three weeks after its twin Spirit touched down on the other side of the planet. With a planned 90-sol duration of activity, Spirit functioned until it got stuck in 2009 and ceased communications in 2010, while Opportunity was able to stay operational for 5111 sols after landing, maintaining its power and key systems through continual recharging of its batteries using solar power, and hibernating during events such as dust storms to save power. This careful operation allowed Opportunity to exceed its operating plan by 14 years, 46 days, 55 times its designed lifespan. By June 10, 2018, when it last contacted NASA, the rover had traveled a distance of 45.16 kilometers.
  Mission highlights included the initial 90-sol mission, finding extramartian meteorites such as Heat Shield Rock, and over two years of exploring and studying Victoria crater.
context_section_description: Steepest slope
  Highest elevation
  On Sol 3894 (January 6, 2015), Opportunity reached the summit of "Cape Tribulation," which is 443 feet (135 m) above "Botany Bay" level and the highest point yet reached by the rover on western rim of Endeavour Crater according to NASA.
  Driving distance
caption: Opportunity rover "off-world" driving distance record, compared to other rovers[56][57]
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