Mission-success Memes

Nothing says "we definitely thought this through" like watching 60% of your Mars missions crash and burn while one little rover just refuses to die. Engineers designed it for 90 days. It lasted 15 years. On Mars. With dust-covered solar panels that should've killed it in month three. The failed missions are watching from the great scrap heap in the sky, wondering what kind of dark magic NASA accidentally summoned. Meanwhile, mission control is frantically updating spreadsheets like "uh, we didn't budget for Year 14 operations." The rover just kept going, powered by spite and Martian dust devils that occasionally cleaned its panels like some kind of cosmic car wash. This is Opportunity, by the way. The little rover that could, and did, and wouldn't stop until a planet-wide dust storm finally took it out in 2018. Rest in peace, you overachieving legend.