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Mars Rovers Have Incorrect Instruments Installed

Posted by Zonk on from the maybe-they-should-have-given-them-different-paint-jobs dept.

Christopher Reimer writes "The New Scientist is reporting that the twin Mars rovers, Opportunity and Spirit, has instruments installed in the wrong rovers. From the article: 'While the bungle does not undermine the main scientific conclusions drawn from the data collected by the rovers, it is an embarrassing slip-up for a space agency that once lost a Mars spacecraft because engineers mixed up metric and imperial units.'"

2 of 294 comments (clear)

  1. Re:If... by Tethys_was_taken · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    RTFA. NASA's Mars rovers Opportunity and Spirit are identical twins It's the first goddamn line...

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  2. Close fucking call by Alien+Being · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If we hadn't caught this error, we might have thought that they had weapons of mass destruction and wasted a few hundred billion dollars in a crusade to kill tens of thousands of freeze-dried martians.