NASA will decide the fate of its two space missions, the Opportunity rover on Mars and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on the moon depending on the availibity of the findings in the 2015 US budget. In the event that the U.S. space agency decides to terminate these missions would create a precedent unthinkable until very recently: cut funding rovers while still retain the ability to provide information. The situation of both missions is very delicate at the moment, since neither has received financial support in the proposed budgets of the White House in…