Marvin says keep you hands off my Dunkin Donut!
[Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State U.]
They need to drive it to a car wash.
I can’t believe I have followed this for ten years.
Marvin says keep you hands off my Dunkin Donut!
The RAD6000 mostly runs at less than 20mhz for power conservation...lots of time in sleep modes.
The rovers run a VxWorks embedded operating system on a radiation-hardened 20 MHz RAD6000 CPU with 128 MB of DRAM with error detection and correction and 3 MB of EEPROM. Each rover also has 256 MB of flash memory.
The rover has an X-Band low-gain and an X-Band high-gain antenna for communications to and from the Earth, as well as a UHF monopole antenna for relay communications. The low-gain antenna is omnidirectional, and transmits data at a low rate to Deep Space Network dish antennas on Earth
The data from the low-gain omni antenna can be picked up on Earth even if the power drops to only a small fraction of a watt...you can hear almost anything with a good LNA and a 300ft dish.
I don’t see any mountain lions.