Mars Rover Dead.
NASA rover finally bites the dust on Mars after 15 years.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate for just three months but kept going and going, rolling across the rocky red soil, was pronounced dead Wednesday, 15 years after it landed on the planet.
The six-wheeled vehicle that helped gather critical evidence that ancient Mars might have been hospitable to life was remarkably spry up until eight months ago, when it was finally doomed by a ferocious dust storm.
Flight controllers tried numerous times to make contact, and sent one final series of recovery commands Tuesday night, along with one last wake-up song, Billie Holiday’s “I’ll Be Seeing You,” in a somber exercise that brought tears to team members’ eyes. There was no response from space, only silence.
Thomas Zurbuchen, head of NASA’s science missions, broke the news at what amounted to a funeral at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, announcing the demise of “our beloved Opportunity.” MORE @ WRVA
Requiescat in pace Mars Rover…….
That’s some good value.
Pretty good run, much better than the expected 3 months. I’m sure we learned a lot. Mostly about engineering.
Maybe Matt Demon can breath new life into it…in the sequel!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CBRCvAzYO0
15 years of telling us what we already know. There’s nothing there!!
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LLHnllaITU0/XGTad3XeDeI/AAAAAAAAzzA/TaFd8aprAyQEQkqVlMiu3wO1NLdRVmDEACLcBGAs/s1600/Mars_Lander_New_Image.jpg
No one else sees the conspiracy “opportunity” here?
Trump turned the rover off…no, he commanded it drive off a cliff…. in order to keep the TRUTH about Mars (insert fav Martian hoax here) from the American people.
I bet I could sell some tshirts that cover this topic….
What an incredible waste of time and money.
Mars is not unlike Chicago… devoid of intelligent life, noxious atmosphere…
At least all the Martians aren’t drug addicts. But they did shank the Rover because it was made by whitey… it just took them a LONG time to figure out it would take all their jobs.
To: Anonymous February 13, 2019 at 10:14 pm
That seems quite hostile to the “Earth First, then we mine the other planets.”
Did you ever stop to think that today, just like in an old 1950’s science fiction story, Mars is populated entirely by robots?
Me neither.
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How’s that SOLAR POWER working out for NASA’s little red wagon?! 😮
If God INTENDED us to drive around in solar power shitboxes, He WOULDN’T have invented the 426 Hemi, first! 🤔
This is anonymous: https://cheezburger.com/6348443392/panda-youre-an-ass
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He’s dead, Jim.
RIP Opportunity, the little Rover that could.