Discussion: NASA Declares Its Longest-Running Mars Rover Dead After 15 Years

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Bummer! I have an old laptop that still has some of the first pictures sent back as a wallpaper.

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If your laptop has lasted longer than the rover, that is quite impressive.

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Damn that Howard Wolowitz!

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Sad, it seemed to have it’s own personality.

Maybe tRump can put on his Buzz Lightyear Underoos and drive up to fix it.

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I wouldn’t use it for anything, I just keep all my old hardware because I am odd like that. :smile:

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Everything Trump touches dies.

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What’s odd about that? Have you seen my garage? :wink:

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Ahhhhhhh. Rest in peace, Mars Rover.

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Read this touching story in the Post.

We have the chance and the motivation to be better than we are now.

We owe it to ourselves, our children, and our world.

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MCRN Veterans will conduct a service for the bereaved at 1700 hours.

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:laughing:

He broke it ‘throwing’ out the first pitch. hahahaha

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After it was furloughed before, it said to hell with Earth.

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You mean it committed suicide rather than come home?

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Just a reminder how Opportunity and sister ship Spirit landed on Mars. If you don’t know it’s worth watching.

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Last wake-up call is Billie Holliday’s “I’ll be seeing you.” No, no anthropomorphising going on here. Not that I blame them. I think of that sandstorm denying it sunlight energy as Opportunity dying slowly of starvation, wondering if we all had forgotten it.

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“NASA Declares Its Longest-Running Mars Rover Dead.”

Nononono! ‘E’s just restin’! (Hits cage) There – he moved! Probably shagged out after a prolonged squawk, or pining for the fjords. Remarkable rover, the Opportunity, ay? Beautiful plumage!

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I have no snark – NASA’s planetary science accomplishments this century have been absolutely incredible. Sometimes it costs a bunch of money, but over and over they achieve things that nobody else has ever done, or even tried to do, ever.

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But an absolute bargain compared to manned spaceflight, especially when measured against the scientific payoffs.

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