NASA Opportunity (Mars rover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=KyktvC7w7Js

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http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/28/nasa-rover-designed-to-last-90-days-celebrates-12-year-anniversary/​
 
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-mars-roverpanorama-perseverance-valley.html
 
Personally, I'm still waiting for this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTWqCllw_SM to happen - after all, finding water anywhere in the universe really isn't such a big hullabaloo in my view, but now if you would find beer...
 
Again via Slashdot: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/world/mars-opportunity-rover-final-photo-scn-trnd/index.html
 
Grey Havoc said:
Again via Slashdot: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/world/mars-opportunity-rover-final-photo-scn-trnd/index.html
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It's going to be sad to see the end of Opportunity, I have followed the two rovers since the first day on mars after they landed. I suppose there is always Curiosity now.
 
Both with the rovers it could be needed to send something that can fly above the surface to keep tracking Mars. Skyrora XL is intended for placing payloads into Sun-Synchronous Orbit. Nine of the same hydrogen peroxide–kerosene engines used on Skylark XL will power the first stage of the vehicle, and one engine each on the second and third stages. A payload capacity of 315 kg to a 500 km orbit is expected. As of May 2020, the maiden flight is planned to take place in 2023 https://www.skyrora.com/skyrora-xl.
 
Forrest White said:
Both with the rovers it could be needed to send something that can fly above the surface to keep tracking Mars. Skyrora XL is intended for placing payloads into Sun-Synchronous Orbit. Nine of the same hydrogen peroxide–kerosene engines used on Skylark XL will power the first stage of the vehicle, and one engine each on the second and third stages. A payload capacity of 315 kg to a 500 km orbit is expected. As of May 2020, the maiden flight is planned to take place in 2023 https://www.skyrora.com/skyrora-xl.
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I'm really not sure I see a connection between a smallsat launcher and a Mars Rover? We already have a number of satellites in Mars Orbit, but they needed pretty beefy launchers. Skyrora XL can't get there, period.
 
On a tangent, regarding Jarosite:
science.slashdot.org

Substance Found In Antarctic Ice May Solve a Martian Mystery - Slashdot

sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Researchers have discovered a common martian mineral deep within an ice core from Antarctica. The find suggests the mineral -- a brittle, yellow-brown substance known as jarosite -- was forged the same way on both Earth and Mars: from dust...
science.slashdot.org
 
Been reading good things about this documentary.

arstechnica.com

Calling all space nerds: New documentary Good Night Oppy will give you all the feels

Ars chats with director Ryan White about recreating Mars from rover’s perspective, and more.
arstechnica.com arstechnica.com

I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING —
Calling all space nerds: New documentary Good Night Oppy will give you all the feels
Ars chats with director Ryan White about recreating Mars from rover's perspective, and more.

JENNIFER OUELLETTE - 11/21/2022, 8:57 PM
"Opportunity was our brave, intrepid explorer so we could see this unchartered world that we'd never seen before."

For over 14 years, space nerds and the general public alike were riveted by the parallel journeys of Spirit and Opportunity, twin intrepid Mars rovers who launched and landed on the red planet three weeks apart and surpassed their original 90-day missions by many years. We watched from Earth as they explored the Martian surface and dutifully collected samples before finally giving up the ghost in 2010 and 2018, respectively. Now we can relive that journey all over again—while others can discover it for the first time—in Good Night Oppy, a dazzling, feel-good new documentary from Prime Video directed by Ryan White.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1591979001060659202
View: https://twitter.com/criticschoice/status/1591979001060659202


Congratulations to Ryan White, winner of the #criticschoice Documentary Award for Best Director. #goodnightoppy @ryanwhiteIV @amazonstudios @primevideo #documentaryawards
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Trailer:

View: https://youtu.be/W4t58Yruhds
 

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