Remember all those movies about evil martians...

[rudder]

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They are really good people. They clean the rover every night.

 

[etalns]

Haha, that's pretty neat. Is that mission still going?

 

[chuckywang]

War of the Worlds?

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: Qosis
Haha, that's pretty neat. Is that mission still going?

Both rovers still seem to be operational. Pretty cool, I didn't think NASA expected them to last this long.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

They had a 90 life expectancy, and have been going for a over a year now. I bet what is happening is there are wind storms at night that are clearing the solar panel of Opportunity

 

[AdamSnow]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
War of the Worlds?

Great movie... 🙂

 

[Juice Box]

I like cheese

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
They had a 90 life expectancy, and have been going for a over a year now. I bet what is happening is there are wind storms at night that are clearing the solar panel of Opportunity

probably, not much else could explain it..

 

[CaptnKirk]

It's the Squeege-Men panhandling on Mars !

 

[DeMeo]

Originally posted by: digitalsnare
I like cheese

cheese and onions? Or just plain cheese?

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
It's the Squeege-Men panhandling on Mars !

:laugh:

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: acemcmac

Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
It's the Squeege-Men panhandling on Mars !

:laugh:

dust+wind = clean?

 

[DrPizza]

??!

Nasa spent eleventy gazillion dollars on a project to send an object to a place known to be dusty and their engineers didn't think of something to regularly clean off the solar panels??!