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by Fartsniffage » Wed Feb 13, 2019 5:58 pm
The US space agency (Nasa) has called time on its Opportunity Mars rover.
The six-wheeled robot last contacted Earth in June last year, just before it was enveloped in the darkness of a global dust storm.
Engineers hoped Oppy would power back up when the skies cleared and sunlight hit its solar panels again - but there has not been a peep out of the rover.
The routine prompt commands that have been sent to Opportunity will now end. The mission has been declared over.
"We tried valiantly over these last eight months to recover the rover, to get some signal from it," explained project manager John Callas.
"We've listened every single day with sensitive receivers, and we sent over 1,000 recovery commands. We heard nothing and the time has come to say goodbye."
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by Unithonia » Wed Feb 13, 2019 6:00 pm
Fartsniffage wrote:The US space agency (Nasa) has called time on its Opportunity Mars rover.
The six-wheeled robot last contacted Earth in June last year, just before it was enveloped in the darkness of a global dust storm.
Engineers hoped Oppy would power back up when the skies cleared and sunlight hit its solar panels again - but there has not been a peep out of the rover.
The routine prompt commands that have been sent to Opportunity will now end. The mission has been declared over.
"We tried valiantly over these last eight months to recover the rover, to get some signal from it," explained project manager John Callas.
"We've listened every single day with sensitive receivers, and we sent over 1,000 recovery commands. We heard nothing and the time has come to say goodbye."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47231247
It's amazing how we can anthropomorphise tech isn't it?
Opportunity has finally been declared as lost and I'm genuinely upset that it's dead. Curiosity is still going so there is still science happening on Mars but Oppy managed to last for 14.5 years, 14 years and 3 months longer than it was designed for. It was a plucky little rover.
What are your favourite parts of Mars explorations so far?
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