R.I.P., Opportunity Rover: the Hardest-Working Robot in the Solar System
R.I.P., Opportunity Rover: the Hardest-Working Robot in the Solar System
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 18, 20195m 17s
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Show Notes
Last night, NASA reached out one final time to the Opportunity rover on Mars, hoping the golf-cart-sized machine would phone home with good news. Since June, the robot has been unresponsive, likely because a planet-wide sandstorm coated its solar panels in dust. NASA has pinged it over 1,000 times in those gloomy eight months, to no avail. Last night’s attempt was no exception: NASA has announced that Opportunity is officially dead.
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