Never mind the fact that the NASA Opportunity rover had to travel nearly 144 million miles just to get to Mars, but now has beaten the recorded for most miles traversed off this planet. The former record was held by the Apollo 17 crew when the lunar buggy put in 22.21 miles on the surface of the moon. The new record now belongs to the Mars Opportunity rover that just clocked in 22.22 miles. Yes, the 0.01 mile makes a pretty big difference and technically allows Opportunity to be the current ruler of the off-Earth transit race.

This mechanical explorer travels at a whopping 0.11 mph. No, you’re not reading that wrong, its not 11mph, but 0.11 mph. Meaning the rover is clocking in speeds that most ants get up to on a good day.

Interestingly enough, there was a cross study done on other vehicles that go about the same distance in the same time span. The Opportunity rover not only beat the lunar buggy, but now has out done the average driver in Florida. Please consult the graph below for more details. Science, pretty neat stuff.