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Things are not looking great for NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars. The rover, which is nearing its 15th year, is currently stuck in a fierce dust storm that is blanketing the planet, and it's unclear whether it will make it out unscathed. The friendly little robot radioed back to its handlers on Earth on Sunday morning, letting them know that it still had enough power to communicate, but those transmissions have since ceased.
In a new update from NASA, the Opportunity team notes that a more recent attempt to contact Opportunity has been met with only silence. This indicates that the rover is now in a critical low-power mode where it basically hibernates while occasionally checking power levels.
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Here’s what NASA’s Opportunity rover saw as it was swallowed up by the Martian dust storm originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 13 Jun 2018 at 10:27:17 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Things are not looking great for NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars. The rover, which is nearing its 15th year, is currently stuck in a fierce dust storm that is blanketing the planet, and it's unclear whether it will make it out unscathed. The friendly little robot radioed back to its handlers on Earth on Sunday morning, letting them know that it still had enough power to communicate, but those transmissions have since ceased.
In a new update from NASA, the Opportunity team notes that a more recent attempt to contact Opportunity has been met with only silence. This indicates that the rover is now in a critical low-power mode where it basically hibernates while occasionally checking power levels.
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Here’s what NASA’s Opportunity rover saw as it was swallowed up by the Martian dust storm originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 13 Jun 2018 at 10:27:17 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Via BRG - Boy Genius Report