In May 2018, one of the most intense dust storms ever seen on Mars began. The dust storm, which grew to completely cover the planet, swept over NASA's Opportunity rover, forcing the robot into ...

The dust storm on Mars grew from a small, local storm into a massive event over the course of the last two weeks. Opportunity is located near the middle of the storm, while the newer rover ...

Mars Rover Powers Down During Dust Storm—But It's Not Dead Yet. A huge dust cloud has swallowed up a quarter of the red planet's surface, threatening NASA's Opportunity rover.

This series of simulated Mars rover Opportunity images shows how conditions have changed around the NASA rover as a huge dust storm has intensified (from left to right) throughout June 2018 ...

A dust storm has reduced sunlight and visibility on Mars. But NASA's Curiosity rover, seen in a self-portrait taken last week in the Gale Crater, runs on nuclear energy and is powering through.

NASA’s Opportunity Rover survived years on Mars, but a massive dust storm may have finally ended its mission. With solar panels covered in dust and communication lost, scientists wait to see if ...

Opportunity has seen a lot in its time on Mars — including another powerful dust storm, which the rover weathered in 2007. During that storm, Opportunity went silent for a four-day stretch ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover noticed this summer's monster dust storm fairly early on — but not in the way you might expect. The storm was first spotted from above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance ...

It shows the growing dust storm and a blue dot indicating the rover's approximate location. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter first noticed the storm building back on June 1. The MRO team warned the ...

The rover has been quiet since June 10, when a massive planet-covering dust storm cut off its access to solar power. The storm is subsiding and now NASA is playing a tense waiting game to see if ...

Despite conditions that have deprived the Opportunity Mars rover of solar power, NASA officials said June 13 that they expected the long-lived spacecraft to survive an intense ongoing dust storm.

Right now, NASA’s Opportunity rover is doing its best to weather an intense dust storm on the surface of Mars — one that could prevent the robot from ever phoning Earth again.