Posted on 12/30/2014 12:05:57 PM PST by BenLurkin
Usually, all telemetry data is stored in the flash memory, so that when the rover powers down during the Martian night or reboots, the data remains stored like when you turn off your digital camera, the photos remain saved to the cameras flash card. Any data stored in the rovers RAM, however, is lost as it shuts down.
Flash memory may be great for storing data when the rovers electronics are powered down, but flash memory has a limitation on how many times you can read and write to it, Callas told Discovery News. It wears out with use.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
[ Built with a slide rule. Still works. Gotta love analog gear ;) ]
So that is where all the slide rules went, they used them to make voyager...
Now that's just silly.
The contractor that NASA hired went to WalMart and bought some flash cards, and then charged the government $10,000 each for them.
I wonder if anyone rebuilds them.
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