The folks at Nasa think she’s a girl because of her behavioral traits. She sometimes forgets to call home, shares a lot of pictures, pulls of all-nighters, does her own thing and does all the things that would otherwise cause freckles on an Earth bound father’s forehead. It’s the rover ‘Opportunity’, which first landed on Mars on January 25th, 2004. The six wheeled robot is now turning 13, which will make it the Red Planet’s first teenager, until humans set foot there, build a colony and manage to survive for that long.
Nasa thinks that after spending such a long time on the Red Planet, the rover has started to behave more like a teenager, where it sometimes thinks it is invincible, has started to take independent decisions and even stays up all night talking to Odyssey and Maven, the two Mars orbiters which relay data to and from Earth. The Rover has continued to explore the planet, gather information and has relayed it back to Earth, travelling over 27.21 miles since the time it landed.