Mars Rover Update

Behind The Black ^ | February 8, 2018 | Robert Zimmerman

[Voption]

Curiosity remains on Vera Rubin Ridge, though it has begun moving toward the point where it will move down off the ridge. Opportunity remains in Perseverance Valley, though it has finally taken the north fork down.

[Voption]

While a Tesla heads towards Mars, let's not forget the two vehicles already on Mars; Curiosity & Opportunity.

[Yo-Yo]

I thought one of the two went dark a while back. What’s the health status of the two rovers?

[sparklite2]

A Mars Rover's Lament

All day I faced the Martian waste without the taste of water;
cool water.

At JPL the jerks at work sip Evian: I die for water;
cool clear water.

The nights are cold and I've been told each star's
a pool of water; cool water.

But with the dawn I'll switch back on
and MastCamBate for water; cool water.

Load an infra-scan; exploration is the plan;
you're a robot not a man and the broken rocks can stand for water; cool clear water.

MRO, can't you see that big green tree
where water's runnin' free and it's waiting there for

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[Red Badger]

IIRC, The dust of Mars had covered the solar panels, but eventually is was cleaned off by the winds.................

[21twelve]

Nicely done! I wonder if the same scientists telling us that the earth would have no ice on the poles by now are the same ones that forecast that the Mars rovers would only last for 6 months?

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

[editor-surveyor]

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No scientist has ever joined the Global warming club.

Charletans only need apply.

[SaveFerris]

I can’t wait until it finds the spot where Neil Armstrong landed!!! /an actual Democrat put into office by voters, paraphrased

[Voption]

check the link— everything you ever wanted to know.

In brief: Very much alive and “roving.” Chugging along like the Energizer bunny’s they are.
It is Winter-on-Mars for one rover—more difficult to charge the batteries with the solar cells, and they don’t move it as much, but it’s moving.

[butlerweave]

Starman is off course and heading to the Asteroid Belt ,will it send something our way

[mykroar]

That would be the female Einstein, Sheila Jackson Lee.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Cool! Clear lyrics. Water? Not on Mars.

[Voption]

if all the hippies, cut off all their hair....

[Voption]

Now that you mention it, I think that’s correct. can somebody nail that?

[DiogenesLamp]

:)

[sparklite2]

Sounds like the story my Mom told me about a woman on a passenger train during WWII who looked out the window as the train ran alongside the ocean in California and said, “It’s beautiful. What is it, the Atlantic or the Pacific?”

[colorado tanker]

Ping.

I hadn't checking in on these guys in a while. Amazing they're still chugging along.

[SaveFerris]

lol

[SaveFerris]

I always confuse her with Mad Maxine Waters. Thanks.

[gbunch]

Opportunity and Spirit landed on Mars in January 2004. Both far exceeded their predicted 6-month operational life.
Opportunity is still functioning, after 14 years! Spirit went dark in 2010.

https://marsmobile.jpl.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/present/2003/

The much larger Curiosity rover landed in August 2012, and is working fine.