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NASA Opportunity Rover’s Stunning Discovers on Mars | |
| LittleMe
I don’t want flowers when I die…  User ID: 79983911  United States04/05/2021 07:30 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is a combination of the entire Opportunity Series... merged into one video with improved audio and extra clips. Opportunity, also known as MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover – B) or MER-1, and nicknamed "Oppy", is a robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 until the middle of 2018. Opportunity was operational on Mars for 5110 sols (5250 days; 14 years, 136 days). Launched on July 7, 2003, as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover program, it landed in Meridiani Planum on January 25, 2004, three weeks after its twin Spirit (MER-A) touched down on the other side of the planet. With a planned 90-sol duration of activity (slightly less than 92.5 Earth days), Spirit functioned until it got stuck in 2009 and ceased communications in 2010, while Opportunity was able to stay operational for 5111 sols after landing, maintaining its power and key systems through continual recharging of its batteries using solar power, and hibernating during events such as dust storms to save power. This careful operation allowed Opportunity to operate for 57 times its designed lifespan, exceeding the initial plan by 14 years, 46 days (in Earth time). By June 10, 2018, when it last contacted NASA, the rover had traveled a distance of 45.16 kilometers (28.06 miles). ... Due to the planetary 2018 dust storm on Mars, Opportunity ceased communications on June 10 and entered hibernation on June 12, 2018. It was hoped it would reboot once the weather cleared, but it did not, suggesting either a catastrophic failure or that a layer of dust had covered its solar panels. NASA hoped to re-establish contact with the rover, citing a windy period that could potentially clean off its solar panels. On February 13, 2019, NASA officials declared that the Opportunity mission was complete, after the spacecraft had failed to respond to over 1,000 signals sent since August 2018. [link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)] https://imgur.com/a/jx9SSPYLast Edited by LittleMe on 04/05/2021 12:32 PM |
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| LittleMe
(OP) I don’t want flowers when I die… User ID: 79983911 United States04/05/2021 07:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have watched only the first 10 minutes...  Will watched tonight with my boys after dinner. |
| LittleMe
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| LittleMe
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| LittleMe
(OP) I don’t want flowers when I die… User ID: 79983911 United States04/05/2021 08:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thank you my sweet LG!  |
| LAZYboy123
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| CitizenPerth
User ID: 79959341 Australia04/05/2021 09:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | it's amazing what erosion can do in Nevada before nuclear secrecy and seclusion of the proving grounds... *cough* lol CP It's life as we know it, but only just. [link to citizenperth.wordpress.com] sic ut vos es vos should exsisto , denego alius vicis facio vos change , exsisto youself , proprie |
| Icey
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| deplorable scottfree
User ID: 80171721 United States04/05/2021 10:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Done believing their crap stories. Tell me who's been cleaning those solar panels? More Devon Island fakery. J 17:15: "I pray not that Thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldst keep them from the evil. Truth, beauty and virtue ... all the things that THEY hate. All the things God loves. |
| The Old Timer
User ID: 44147937 United States04/05/2021 10:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At about the 6 min mark....."saw some wispy clouds"....Of what?? Water?? Lets go Brandon!! What doesn't kill us...makes us more interesting Either you live for something worth dying for....or you rot away and die on the installment plan quote: Mr Bill when I post something....I will remove any post I find disrespectful or offensive..... |
| LittleMe
(OP) I don’t want flowers when I die… User ID: 79983911 United States04/05/2021 12:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is a combination of the entire Opportunity Series... merged into one video with improved audio and extra clips. Opportunity, also known as MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover – B) or MER-1, and nicknamed "Oppy", is a robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 until the middle of 2018. Opportunity was operational on Mars for 5110 sols (5250 days; 14 years, 136 days). Launched on July 7, 2003, as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover program, it landed in Meridiani Planum on January 25, 2004, three weeks after its twin Spirit (MER-A) touched down on the other side of the planet. With a planned 90-sol duration of activity (slightly less than 92.5 Earth days), Spirit functioned until it got stuck in 2009 and ceased communications in 2010, while Opportunity was able to stay operational for 5111 sols after landing, maintaining its power and key systems through continual recharging of its batteries using solar power, and hibernating during events such as dust storms to save power. This careful operation allowed Opportunity to operate for 57 times its designed lifespan, exceeding the initial plan by 14 years, 46 days (in Earth time). By June 10, 2018, when it last contacted NASA, the rover had traveled a distance of 45.16 kilometers (28.06 miles). ... Due to the planetary 2018 dust storm on Mars, Opportunity ceased communications on June 10 and entered hibernation on June 12, 2018. It was hoped it would reboot once the weather cleared, but it did not, suggesting either a catastrophic failure or that a layer of dust had covered its solar panels. NASA hoped to re-establish contact with the rover, citing a windy period that could potentially clean off its solar panels. On February 13, 2019, NASA officials declared that the Opportunity mission was complete, after the spacecraft had failed to respond to over 1,000 signals sent since August 2018. [link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)] |
| LittleMe
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| LittleMe
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| LittleMe
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| LittleMe
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| LittleMe
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| Bad Pattern
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| LittleMe
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| Xeven
User ID: 79827759 United States04/05/2021 02:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Very good watched half so far. I reserve the right to declare my comments and posts as satire. Nothing I post should be considered or interpreted as advocacy for illegal activity. My comments are designed to inspire critical political thinking. I only mean half of what I say and only say half of what I mean. |
| Red Hot Chilean Pepe
User ID: 79780291  Chile04/05/2021 06:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Opportunity Rover was stunning, we can only hope for perseverance to take us to an even better understanding of Mars. Thanks for posting this LittleMe!!!  All great truths begin as Blasphemies. G.B.S. GLP is like a diamond mine of information, in the sense that you have to shovel mountains of crap to find the diamonds, but it's still worth the pain. |
| LittleMe
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| LittleMe
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| Loup Garou
User ID: 31702506 United States04/05/2021 07:41 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | One question seeking an answer. WHO took the video of the rover, no attachment where it would have filmed itself, so again, who took the footage? Just because YOU don’t believe in the Rougarou; or the Loup Garou, don’t make you safe; No ! The Constitution is a blend of 'moral certitude' -- which is one of the reasons that criminals are determined to be rid of it and We the People must be even more determined to defend it. "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." - Thomas Paine The only thing the Illuminati fears is an independent person who can live, eat, sleep, stay warm and defend themselves separate from Federal help. Pray that the Lord gives us more time! The End is near and time is short! A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. ~Proverbs 18:2 For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle" - James Keller Checkd, Keked, and Rekt! #Kids2 |
| Red Hot Chilean Pepe
User ID: 79780291 Chile04/05/2021 08:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | One question seeking an answer. Quoting: Loup Garou WHO took the video of the rover, no attachment where it would have filmed itself, so again, who took the footage? There's no "video of Opportunity". You must be confusing with the very frequent images of the Mars rover Curiosity, which has an extensible robotic arm with a Hi res Camera attached, that is routinely used to take pictures of itself,which are always a composite of several shots to be able to remove the arm from the images. Opportunity had not that extensible arm, and to take the only selfie it could take of itself, to commemorate its 5000 "sols" on mission, one image was composed using the microscope camera and a lot of algorithm juggling. The result was a low resolution mosaic, because the microscope camera was not created for that purpose, just creatively adapted for that purpose on that ocassion. The image can be seen in this link: [link to www.planetary.org (secure)] At that link there's another Opportunity selfie taken using the same technique at sol 5060. All great truths begin as Blasphemies. G.B.S. GLP is like a diamond mine of information, in the sense that you have to shovel mountains of crap to find the diamonds, but it's still worth the pain. |
| CitizenPerth
User ID: 79959341 Australia04/05/2021 09:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | HEY MAN! LTNS! ;) It's life as we know it, but only just. [link to citizenperth.wordpress.com] sic ut vos es vos should exsisto , denego alius vicis facio vos change , exsisto youself , proprie |
