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After wondering far longer than expected---and racking up 28 miles--the Mars Rover succumbed at the age of 15 years to a raging dust storm last spring and NASA has ended their attempts to communicate.
Job well done RoverYou will live on for years in the data you provided
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The mileage was admirable considering that road maps and off-ramps were non-existent......Ben
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I believe it out lived it's life expectancy by a long shot.
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Well done, NASA.
Hunter
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
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I think NASA will make a come back with it's project to put a space station in orbit around the moon. All the private competition will cause them to drive advancements as well.
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The original expectation---90 daysOriginally Posted by Phillbo
The belief is that the solar panels were covered by dust. NSA had hoped that subsequent winds would blow them off but that scenario didn't materialize.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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