The Opportunity rover's final message to Earth was my battery is low and it is getting dark
the verdict
REFUTED
the evidence says no
confidence 0/100
The Opportunity rover did not actually transmit the words "my battery is low and it is getting dark"; this phrase was a popular poetic paraphrase created by a journalist to describe its final technical data dump.
Evidence against · 5
Snopes: Was a Mars Rover's Final Message to NASA 'My Battery Is Low and ...
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Fact-checker ruling: Mostly False
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snopes.com: Was a Mars Rover's Final Message to NASA 'My Battery Is Low and It's Getting Dark?' | Snopes.com
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Fact-checker ruling: reviewed
science.nasa.gov: Opportunity's Last Message - NASA Science
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Shows the actual last data was an incomplete image and data dump, not text.
nasa.gov: NASA's Record-Setting Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End - NASA
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States the final communication was a normal transmission, not the quoted sentence.
space.stackexchange.com: What was the last message Opportunity sent?
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Explains the phrase is a human interpretation of diagnostics from a single tweet.