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Posted: 6/13/2018 11:55:47 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/13/2018 12:00:31 PM EDT
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A lot more sad than Anthony Bourdain killing himself...
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Posted: 6/13/2018 12:05:17 PM EDT
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Note to next generation Rover designers... It would be Boss to have a System to clear dust off those solar panels... 
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Posted: 6/13/2018 12:06:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/13/2018 12:09:26 PM EDT
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Note to next generation Rover designers... It would be Boss to have a System to clear dust off those solar panels... |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 12:13:55 PM EDT
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Oh great, now we are going to irradiate Mars and make it uninhabitable to the poor microbes we just found there. NASA is so dumb. |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 12:14:51 PM EDT
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It doesn't matter how well you clean the panels if there's no light to capture.
"The Martian dust storm that has blotted out the sun above Opportunity has continued to intensify" |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 12:16:13 PM EDT
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 Martian Dust Storm Has Turned Day Into Night - Can Opportunity Survive? |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 12:18:54 PM EDT
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It doesn't matter how well you clean the panels if there's no light to capture. "The Martian dust storm that has blotted out the sun above Opportunity has continued to intensify" |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 12:20:55 PM EDT
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Why cant they just pick it up? I mean it is in Utah.
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Posted: 6/13/2018 12:21:59 PM EDT
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Holy shit it’s been 6 years?! It seems like yesterday i was watching the live stream. Good on the engineers for designing something that has lasted well beyond its intended service life.
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Posted: 6/13/2018 12:36:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How about a small compressor and some nozzles aimed at the solar panels? |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 12:46:10 PM EDT
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Consuela from housekeeping? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Note to next generation Rover designers... It would be Boss to have a System to clear dust off those solar panels... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaning_event |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 12:48:14 PM EDT
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He was such a good boy.
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Posted: 6/13/2018 5:59:00 PM EDT
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It's possible that the rover will be stuck exactly where it is until the end of time.........if there is such a thing as the end of time. Maybe we will eventually get up there and pick it up, maybe not.
Could be there forever. Sitting on Mars in silence for eternity. Crazy to think about. |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:07:16 PM EDT
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You would figure this would be... common sense. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Note to next generation Rover designers... It would be Boss to have a System to clear dust off those solar panels... |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:08:34 PM EDT
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Eeeevahhhh
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:11:16 PM EDT
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They just need to send another robot up there to clean it.
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:13:06 PM EDT
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There's so little air around Mars you're going to have to use quite a bit of power to compress it enough to clean your solar panels that are not supplying power to the compressor to clean the solar panels... Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: How about a small compressor and some nozzles aimed at the solar panels? use the compressors to charge the system during normal ops. And wait till it's needs. |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:16:01 PM EDT
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It had to stop working sometime considering it was only initially intended for a few month mission and has been running for almost 6 years |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:21:29 PM EDT
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There was an ARFCommer here on GD a few years ago that designed and built parts of the rovers.
I think the wheel struts. I can't remember his name though. Anyone remember? |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:23:18 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:23:22 PM EDT
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No, no, no.... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Consuela from housekeeping? |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:26:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:27:34 PM EDT
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They have great Optics in them
Cough cough 
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:30:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A contained RTG =/= OMG NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE!!!!1!1 |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:31:32 PM EDT
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There was an ARFCommer here on GD a few years ago that designed and built parts of the rovers. I think the wheel struts. I can't remember his name though. Anyone remember? Damn, I can picture that as clear as my own. Wish I knew who that was. 
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:32:56 PM EDT
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Note to next generation Rover designers... It would be Boss to have a System to clear dust off those solar panels... They have ran for 14 years, which is an incredible accomplishment. |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:35:16 PM EDT
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Funny thing is, all these rovers will be in Museums one day - probably the Voyager probes too.
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:38:00 PM EDT
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Funny thing is, all these rovers will be in Museums one day - probably the Voyager probes too. 
Whose? |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:38:13 PM EDT
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It's possible that the rover will be stuck exactly where it is until the end of time.........if there is such a thing as the end of time. Maybe we will eventually get up there and pick it up, maybe not. Could be there forever. Sitting on Mars in silence for eternity. Crazy to think about. Now, the voyager probes? Estimates on the life of the golden record are that it may last several billion years. Realistically, we will eventually get there and put these things a martian museum. |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:42:00 PM EDT
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He was such a good boy. |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:50:20 PM EDT
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One more thing can go wrong. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Note to next generation Rover designers... It would be Boss to have a System to clear dust off those solar panels... 
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Posted: 6/13/2018 6:54:57 PM EDT
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That's actually kinda sad. Quote HistoryQuoted:
That's actually kinda sad.  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 7:13:33 PM EDT
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Real Life Wall-E
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Posted: 6/13/2018 7:18:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/13/2018 7:21:09 PM EDT
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Note to next generation Rover designers... It would be Boss to have a System to clear dust off those solar panels... |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 7:29:59 PM EDT
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Well done little robot. |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 7:33:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How about a small compressor and some nozzles aimed at the solar panels? |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 7:35:08 PM EDT
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Funny thing is, all these rovers will be in Museums one day - probably the Voyager probes too. 
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Posted: 6/13/2018 7:35:22 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/13/2018 7:39:02 PM EDT
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Err, do you know where voyager is? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Funny thing is, all these rovers will be in Museums one day - probably the Voyager probes too. |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 7:39:05 PM EDT
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The Opportunity team should look back on a job well done. I look forward to the day that even a small item of the rover is returned to Earth as a testimony to our desire to explore and expand in our universe. 
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Posted: 6/13/2018 7:41:47 PM EDT
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NASA's new nuclear power gen will be a nuclear stirling engine. 10KW max at this point. |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 7:42:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hasn't it left our solar system? |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 7:43:26 PM EDT
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I am guessing Rover is not Chinese junk.
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Posted: 6/13/2018 7:43:38 PM EDT
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I have an idea. The solar cells could be mounted on a long trianglar “tubes” that could rotate on the long axis. The top face exposed, bottom 2 faces covered by enclosure below them. If top face gets duty just rotate to expose clean cells. The rotation could brush against some bristles. Have enough of them and you could rotate individual tubes to clean without disrupting power. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I always thought the Rovers needed a dust brush (like a windshield wiper) to keep the panels clean. They don't have one? And didn't a dust storm blow the dust off a rover once, allowing it to recharge? Have enough of them and you could rotate individual tubes to clean without disrupting power. |
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Posted: 6/13/2018 7:47:04 PM EDT
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She/It, whatever, is in interstellar space (outside of our solar system), heading away at 38000mph. 
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Posted: 6/13/2018 8:05:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/13/2018 8:11:28 PM EDT
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Maybe some fans Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Note to next generation Rover designers... It would be Boss to have a System to clear dust off those solar panels... |
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