It gave us 14 years of work in a hostile environment with no maintenance. Pretty damn impressive.
No worries, Matt Damon will find it.
Agreed. And what is equally impressive is that it also survived obama throwing the off switch for 8 years.
It gave us 14 years of work in a hostile environment with no maintenance. Pretty damn impressive.
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Indeed. I think it was intended to originally operate for 2 weeks. 14 years, and that is one harsh environment. And forget calling AAA. You can imagine what the towing charge would be!
Wasn’t the expected life only a few weeks/months?
Yeah - they sure got a lot of great “extra” science out of the thing. Opportunity was pretty much dormant anyway. I think it wasn’t too long ago that they woke it up to test the systems, but then shut it down again.
I’m assuming that the still active rover - Curiosity, is still okay?