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After 11 years on Mars, Curiosity continues to climb the slopes of Mount Sharp (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Love that thing. Please survive a litt longer!

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

I nominate @[email protected] to add that section into the Curiosity Wikipedia article.

All in favour (upvote below) : all against (downvote below)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] Sigmatics 1 points 2 years ago

Will it be the first to summit a martian mountain?

[โ€“] Sigmatics 1 points 2 years ago

Route: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/where-is-the-rover/

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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