And don't ask what the turtle is standing on. I've heard that argument before
It's turtles all the way down
Posted on 03/06/2020 1:15:43 PM PST by Red Badger
Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps 1.8 Billion Pixel Panorama
This panorama showcases Glen Torridon a region on the side of Mount Sharp that Curiosity is exploring.
The panorama was taken between Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, 2019, when the Curiosity team was out for the Thanksgiving holiday. Since it would be sitting still with few other tasks to do while it waited for the team to return, the rover had a rare chance to image its surroundings several days in a row without moving.
For more about the mission, visit
https://mars.nasa.gov/msl
Somebody’s gonna pull the obligatory Uranus joke. It’s bound to happen. Lol
WOW!
Have they found Hillary emails yet?
Does not look like the kind of place to raise your kids...
Fascinating!
Would Klingons be involved?
Too cold.
Direct link => https://youtu.be/X2UaFuJsqxk
Insert your Mayor Pete joke here_________.
I swear I saw Brian William’s shadow in the filming. And I’m sure Biden was there with the Venus probe too.
Very cool.
Arizona is more beautiful and cheaper to visit.
They have water and enchiladas too...
Of course mayor Pete Buttplug would prefer a video of Uranus.
Everywhere you look, what do you see?
Rocks
Thank you!
Below is an excerpt from the webs. It landed on 2012. Sort of confusing their numbers. Power system designed to last two years. Estimated life span of components is 5 to 6 years (so to 2018 or so). But all the components were tested to 3x that length of time. But then farther down they mention the power plant, which can last 10 to 15 years.
Anyway - I think we got our money’s worth!
Excerpt:
While the rover could realistically survive five or six years on Mars, there are three main areas that could limit Curiosity’s life: the rover’s onboard mechanisms, its batteries, and its nuclear-powered RTG, he explained.
“We test the mechanisms usually for three times life — sometimes two — and we don’t test them to failure,” Theisinger told SPACE.com. “So, all the mechanisms have been tested to last two to three times longer than we expect the mission to operate, if they haven’t failed in that period of time.”
The rover’s batteries and RTG are designed to operate on Mars for at least 687 Earth days, but could endure for longer. [Infographic: History of Robotic Red Planet Missions]
“The RTG suffers from the degradation of plutonium dioxide, but that lasts a long time,” Theisinger said. “I think from the RTG, I would expect to get 10, 12 or 15 years out of it.”
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