After 11 years on Mars, Curiosity continues to climb the slopes of Mount Sharp

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/08/msl-11-years/

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brealorg@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 3y

Love that thing. Please survive a litt longer!

yeldarb12@lemmynsfw.com · 13 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Damn I didn't think it had been that long! That thing is putting in some serious overtime.

kittenbridgeasteroid@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 3y

The team that programs the daily instruction set is doing so too.

Psythik@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I wish the Wikipedia article for this thing had a chart showing which sensors are still operational and what they're used for, like they do for Voyager 1 & 2. Somebody needs to clean up that article and add that section in.

Isoprenoid@programming.dev · 17 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Somebody needs to clean up that article and add that section in.

I nominate @Psythik@lemm.ee to add that section into the Curiosity Wikipedia article.

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Psythik@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y

Bad idea. People who aren't knowledgeable about a subject, have no business editing the article about it.

I nominate a person who actually works at NASA. Don't make my dumbass do it or I'll just get banned again for vandalism.

paddirn@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

To think its original mission was supposed to only last around 2 years and yet it's still going. So proud of the work they do out at NASA.

Hazdaz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

11 years?! Geez. It feels like yesterday when people were talking about it landing on Mars.

Sigmatics@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

I wonder, as a rover program goes on and gets closer to its end, do the controllers get more daring?