NASA Releases Opportunity Rover’s Final Panoramic View of Mars
Opportunity spent its final months building this panorama of its location, which is now its gravesite. Continue reading NASA Releases Opportunity Rover’s Final Panoramic View of Mars
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Engineering for the Long Haul, the NASA Way
The popular press was recently abuzz with sad news from the planet Mars: Opportunity, the little rover that could, could do no more. It took an astonishing 15 years for it to give up the ghost, and it took a planet-wide dust storm that blotted out the sun and …read more
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Mars Opportunity Rover Appears to Send Data to Earth After Five Months of Silence
NASA’s Deep Space Network started receiving a small amount of data from the rover on Thursday afternoon. Continue reading Mars Opportunity Rover Appears to Send Data to Earth After Five Months of Silence
Clock Monitors Deep Space Network, Keeps Vigil Over Lost Mars Rover
It’s been a long, long time since we heard from Opportunity, the remarkable Mars rover that has shattered all expectations on endurance and productivity but has been silent since a planet-wide dust storm blotted out the Sun and left it starved for power. Right now, it’s perched on the edge of a crater on Mars, waiting for enough sunlight to charge its batteries so it can call home. All we can do is sit, and wait.
To pass the time until Opportunity stirs again, [G4lile0] built this Deep Space Network clock. Built around an ESP32 and a TFT display, …read more
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Martian Dust Storm May Spell Doom for Rover
Everyone knows that space is an incredibly inhospitable place, but the surface of Mars isn’t a whole lot better. It’s a dim, cold, and dry world, with a wisp of an atmosphere that provides less than 1% of Earth’s barometric pressure. As the planet’s core no longer provides it with a magnetosphere, cosmic rays and intense solar flares bathe the surface in radiation. Human life on the surface without adequate environmental shielding is impossible, and as NASA’s fleet of rovers can attest, robotic visitors to the planet aren’t completely immune to the planet’s challenges.
As a planet-wide dust storm finally …read more
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NASA’s Opportunity Rover Is Battling for Its Life in an Epic Martian Dust Storm
Opportunity has driven farther and lived longer than any interplanetary rover. But can it survive one of the most intense dust storms ever observed on Mars? Continue reading NASA’s Opportunity Rover Is Battling for Its Life in an Epic Martian Dust Storm