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Good Night Oppy - Prime Video - NASA Mars Rovers Documentary

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BenTheGoodAg
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If you like space exploration and documentaries, this is a good watch.

The Spirit & Opportunity Mars rovers had an epic run. Designed for 90 days on the Marian surface, both well outlived their design life. Hell, just consider how often you switch out phones, or have to change the oil in your vehicle to keep it running. Opportunity lasted almost 15 years in a hostile environment, with the only interaction coming from a 20 minute delayed broadcast. Incredible.

OasisMan
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Yep

I enjoyed it a lot
oragator
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Spirit may be my favorite NASA craft of all time. It faced problem after problem and always overcame them, until finally it couldn't. And sometimes its problems even turned out to be a blessing, like when it's non functional wheel scraped away the surface layer to fins rock that could have been microbial. But it almost died less than 20 days in. It filed a a dust devil that might have cleared its panels and saved it, a couple of other times it was close to death and got miraculous wind help.

But good timing on this, Insight might have just sent it's final communication in the last week. Another really successful mission.

https://www.cnet.com/science/space/this-may-be-nasa-insight-landers-final-image-from-mars/
AgE2theBONE
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All of the engineers and other scientists involved in this mission must've been mind-blown beyond imagination.

I can't even fathom it. You're hoping/praying the rovers last 90 days, and Oppy roams around on Mars for nearly fifteen years?!

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