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The Rovers That Just Won't Quit
smooth wombat writes "Like the Energizer bunny, the two martian rovers just won't quit. Spirit, after climbing to the top of Husband Hill during the past year, spent two months examining rocks at the top of the hill and scientists confirmed that those rocks were similar to rocks found along the side of the hill indicating that Husband Hill is probably the result of an impact crater.
It will take about two months for Spirit to make its way down the hill after which the next target will be a feature called Home Plate located about a half mile away.
Opportunity is exploring the northern rim of Erebus Crater, the largest crater between already-explored Endurance Crater and its next destination, Victoria Crater.
The rovers were only supposed to last three months but have been operating for almost two years. NASA has also released a 360 degree panorama of images taken by Spirit as it explored Gustav Crater."
had the spirit to climb husband hill!!
Cliff Claven
K.E.G. Party Chairman
Founding Leader of: Koncerned for Egalitarin Governance
at livejournal.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/opportunitygrrl/
and
http://www.livejournal.com/users/spiritrover/
What ? Me, worry ?
work at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, D.C..
Thanks in advance,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.
"...and scientists confirmed that those rocks were similar to rocks found along the side of the hill..."
The bot went over the crater, the bot went over the crater
The bot went over the crater, to see what he could see.
And all that he could see, and all that he could see
Was the other side of the crater, the other side of the crater
The other side of the crater, was all that he could see.
I read
They didn't even Photoshop out the tennis courts on the right. I knew these things were faked!
Haida Manga
I wonder if NASA accidentally used months instead of years when calculating the lifespan of the rovers.
Somehow if we ./ them they will quit??
I dunno , some robots , just no consideration for those left on earth.
They can put a man on the moon and robots on mars. I mean if anyone can withstand a slashdotting, surely they can.
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
"probably built it half as robust and still been outstanding pieces of machinery"
Yeah , why did those engineers bother over engineering. They could
have made them out of some old beer cans and kit from radio shack.
Hey they might only have lasted 10 seconds but think of all the
money saved!
Slant the panels and build in a small vibrator.
Man, this all sounds oddly offensive. ;-)
Did she ever get the opportunity?
"Rovers that won't quit"? Is it really Fitzmas already?
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make install -not war
You forgot:
5.5 Start boring hole in rock (pun intended)
and
9. ???
10. Profit !!!
1. To keep the funding flowing, or to encourage space exploration by private enterprise, the rovers simply need to find some gold.
2. Now that we have the technology worked out to make a hardy, long lasting rover, can we do something about the cosmetics? Who are we kidding. These things are Imperial Probe Droids and should look the part.
Trying to use sarcasm in text-based forums does not work.
Number Six is DOOMED?
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
No one reads the data. They put it in a box with a swastika on the side and cart it of into some huge government warehouse.
If NASA run out of tasks for the rovers, they could always send them to find Beagle 2.
It's a martian university information technology research project. the local martian college geeks have hacked into the systems and are feeding them a virtual reality data stream of what they want us poor earthlings to receive as data. The trick is to see how long they can keep us going.
the two systems are actually sitting inside a research lab in separate rooms in a cave someplace on the northern slope of Valles Marenaris [sp?]
Everything is simulated in glorious high precision detail. Everything.
Quite an exercise in engineering, actually. The kids are getting good grades.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"