I was designed to survive 90 days. I explored Mars for more than 14 years.
I crossed landscapes no human had seen. In layered rocks and tiny mineral spheres, I found signs that water had once shaped this world.
My wheels carried me 45.16 kilometers — farther than any machine had traveled on another world at the time.
Then a planet-wide dust storm darkened my sky. My solar panels could no longer gather enough sunlight. My last signal arrived on June 10, 2018.
I did not send a poetic goodbye. But the silence was real. And so are the discoveries I left behind.
An interpretive first-person story inspired by NASA mission records. These are not actual messages transmitted by the spacecraft.