Opportunity report by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society

August 9, 2014: Opportunity Sets Historic Distance Record and Roves On. It’s official: Opportunity has traveled farther and lived longer than any other vehicle on another planet, driving the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission to a place in history with an out-of-this-world distinction no one even imagined when the robot field geologist left Earth 11 years ago. As the MER team paused to celebrate the historic milestone at the end of July, the veteran rover was already roving on, making marathon tracks toward her next destination and kicking the bar higher for those rovers that have and will follow her to Mars’ surface… [More at link]