Somebody’s gonna pull the obligatory Uranus joke. It’s bound to happen. Lol
WOW!
Have they found Hillary emails yet?
Does not look like the kind of place to raise your kids...
Fascinating!
Direct link => https://youtu.be/X2UaFuJsqxk
I swear I saw Brian William’s shadow in the filming. And I’m sure Biden was there with the Venus probe too.
Very cool.
Arizona is more beautiful and cheaper to visit.
They have water and enchiladas too...
Of course mayor Pete Buttplug would prefer a video of Uranus.
Everywhere you look, what do you see?
Rocks
Thank you!
Below is an excerpt from the webs. It landed on 2012. Sort of confusing their numbers. Power system designed to last two years. Estimated life span of components is 5 to 6 years (so to 2018 or so). But all the components were tested to 3x that length of time. But then farther down they mention the power plant, which can last 10 to 15 years.
Anyway - I think we got our money’s worth!
Excerpt:
While the rover could realistically survive five or six years on Mars, there are three main areas that could limit Curiosity’s life: the rover’s onboard mechanisms, its batteries, and its nuclear-powered RTG, he explained.
“We test the mechanisms usually for three times life sometimes two and we don’t test them to failure,” Theisinger told SPACE.com. “So, all the mechanisms have been tested to last two to three times longer than we expect the mission to operate, if they haven’t failed in that period of time.”
The rover’s batteries and RTG are designed to operate on Mars for at least 687 Earth days, but could endure for longer. [Infographic: History of Robotic Red Planet Missions]
“The RTG suffers from the degradation of plutonium dioxide, but that lasts a long time,” Theisinger said. “I think from the RTG, I would expect to get 10, 12 or 15 years out of it.”
Thank you for posting!
Thank you for posting!
7 years and still going. And not a single oil change! Amazing.
“while it waited for the team to return”
Sounds like there’s more going on there than they’re telling us about...
It’s more panning over still photos than a video proper. Pretty cool, though. Sky looks kind of blue?
*ping*
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