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NASA to Try and Reach Opportunity One Last Time, Calling It Quits After That

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

microtodd writes:

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: 2) by looorg on Wednesday February 13 2019, @10:37PM (2 children)

    by looorg (578) on Wednesday February 13 2019, @10:37PM (#800765)

    Have they tried turning it off and on again? Still it's pretty good for something to last about 180 months when the prediction was three.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:07PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:07PM (#801116)

    Hey Larry, doing anything?
    No, not much.
    So we need you to go flip a switch, ok?
    Sure.
    On Mars...

    • (Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:57PM

      by looorg (578) on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:57PM (#801167)

      Perhaps they could send another robot to do it.