Endless nothingness...And I can't stop looking.
Very Cool!
Endless nothingness...And I can't stop looking.
Hopefully Perseverance is as successful as Spirit, or even better it's twin Opportunity, that little guy ran from 2004-to 2018 and was designed for a 90 Sol mission (~88 Earth days), did >28 miles over 15 years.
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It was sad to see it go offline back in June of '18.
You might remember the “My battery is low and it’s getting dark” as it's last words, as a planetwide dust storm that lasted from May of '18 to September was blocking it's solar panels from keeping the batteries charged, and finally ran too low to keep the mission clock going, so it couldn't wake back up after the storm.
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The MSL on Curiosity basically yeeted itself to the rear of curiosity (within 2° of 180° of the heading of the rover) , and the rear obstacle cameras observers caught some of the plume. The mars recon satellite should have a picture of the MSL cratered somewhere aft of the rover, probably online before too long. Curiosity's is attached below.Cool landing vehicle. I guess the drop pod just goes and ****s off out of the area to study and crashes? Not way it makes it back out of the atmosphere.
Probably. But this heli's entire mission is to see if it flys at all and gain data. The next one will be more impressive.Is it true you get 10min drone helicopter air time before you need to plug it back into a usb port.
They're still on dsl so quite a while. Cable guys can be there on the Mars end to finish the fiber install between 9am and 5pm on a monday-friday sometime in the next 3 monthsDang, how long does the data take to transfer from Mars to here?
Roughly 11 minutes currently. Varies based on the distance between Mars and Earth. Can take up to 22 minutes.Dang, how long does the data take to transfer from Mars to here?