June 3, 2015: Opportunity Tours Spirit of St. Louis Crater Opportunity spent a mostly merry month of May on Mars touring Spirit of St. Louis Crater, stopping at science targets named in honor of Charles Lindbergh and the incredible flight he took 88 years ago, a heroic feat that fired up the wanderlust for soaring through the skies and pushing the boundaries to do what no one else has done. (…)
All in all, May was another workaday month for Opportunity. Despite some more annoying computer issues, the veteran rover carried on with the planned science campaign inside Spirit of St. Louis Crater the small, oblong-shaped crater near the entrance to Marathon Valley. As the robot field geologist roved from one rock to another target, she roved and worked “fantastically well,” said Bill Nelson, chief of MER engineering at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), home to all of NASA’s Mars rovers. [More at link]