To: All
How sturdy is the rover against winds?
Does it have an auto reboot system if it does not hear from earth?
To: longtermmemmory
NASA lists Spirit as having a mass of 174 kg (384 lb weight on earth). With the atmosphere having a pressure of on 8 millibars, the winds would have to be incredible to cause any problems at all with stability.
To: longtermmemmory
How sturdy is the rover against winds? One of those dust devils could have got under the solar panel wing and flipped the contraption right over. An opportunity for the aeronautics dept to learn something.
60 posted on
01/22/2004 7:39:17 PM PST by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: longtermmemmory
Does it have an auto reboot system if it does not hear from earth? Well, the HAL9000 computer is supposed to have an auto reboot....
Reboot the Rover, HAL....
65 posted on
01/22/2004 9:27:36 PM PST by
archy
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