February 3, 2015: Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity Completes 11th Year of Surface Operations! On January 24, 2015 something wonderful happened on Mars. Opportunity completed her 11th year of exploring the surface of the Red Planet! The veteran Mars Exploration Rover couldn’t exactly go to Disneyland to celebrate this amazing achievement, so she did what she loves to do – roved on. The robot field geologist is on the way now to check out a small, bizarre crater, finish the first marathon on Mars, and she has an “E ticket” to a scientific wonderland the likes of which no Red Planet robot has ever seen.
“We have begun our 12th year on Mars,” said Steve Squyres, MER principal investigator, of Cornell University, during an interview in late January. “It’s fantastic.” [More at link]