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Looks like that's it for the Opportunity Mars rover. Not a bad way to go though... taken out by a global dust storm - the biggest ever recorded - 15 years into a 90-day mission.
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"Opportunity" did manage to collect some data and transmit some pictures (like this and this) before it had to shut down to conserve battery power..
The "Curiosity" rover also collected a bunch of pictures and other data. It is nuke-powered so it didn't have any trouble surviving the storm. There are also several spacecraft orbiting Mars that were collecting data during the storm. This was the first (known) global dust storm since the 70s so the scientists were really interested in bringing all their instruments to bear and getting as much data as possible on this storm.