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Mission Launch of Opportunity to attempt to discover evidence of life of Mars or trace of water or minerals. Any substance that could hospitalize life was to search for.
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It was the darkest landing spot ever made on a Mars mission. The crater was later called Eagle Crater.
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In search of the heat shield, a meteorite was discovered in the process. They named the meteorite after what had coincidencially brought them to find the meteorite.
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Drove 220 meters in one sol (solar day)
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The rover had dug a hole in the sand and accidentally dug a hole that was too big for the wheel and it got stuck.
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The scientists worked weeks to come up with a way to remove the rover with the least possible damage. They did so by starting to move inch by inch out of the dune.
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Rover woke up days after multiple Dust Storms hit Opportunity while it was studying and collecting samples in Erebus Crater.
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Damage had occurred to the robot arm due to the amount of dust that compiled on the rover in the dust storms.
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Opportunity rode the rim of the crater and eventually drove inwards and began a study of the soil and its minerals.
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Lose Communication with Earth when Mars went in between the Earth and the Sun.
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Communication was regained when the solar conjunction was no more. We could at last move the rover once again.
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Largest meteorite found on Mars so far in history. It is said to have traces of minerals and water evidence from the past.
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Broke the record set by Viking 1 of 2245 sols and is now 2246 sols
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Rover collected evidence that scientists claimed beared evidence of previous water reminants.
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Here Opportunity studied old rocks that obtained traces of past water presence.
