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posted by martyb on Wednesday February 13 2019, @10:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the Marvin-has-a-new-pet? dept.

After 15 years, in what was supposed to be a 3 month trip, NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity might finally be going to sleep for good. NASA is going to try one last time to reach the rover, but if they can't get a response then the program will finally officially shut down.

https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2019-02-12/nasa-about-to-pull-plug-on-mars-rover-silent-for-8-months

Submitter: At least now we know Opportunity won't take over the moon: https://xkcd.com/1504/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:21PM (#801134)

    That was an interesting read. Best bit was with the bio-contamination policies that came from Apollo 12 and the subsequent reverse logic of NASA... instead of risking contamination of one of Jupiter's moons, hmm - maybe find a bigger target - hey, crash the probe into Jupiter proper! Why risk contaminating a (smallish) moon when you can potentially zark up the biggest plant in our solar system? Way to go guys, way to go.