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Will Rovers Outlast Lavery's Shirt???
Slashdot.org has a new and interesting post concering the Mars Rovers.
The bottom line I suppose is that Dave Lavery will get to wear his "My other Cars are on Mars" shirt for another year and a half or so. While the rovers are starting to show signs of wear and tear, I suppose Lavery's shirt has lost a bit of its starch by now too.
Spirit, Opportunity, or Dave's Shirt? Which will outlast the other? ;-)
In any case I'd say it was a pretty good bit of work for a set of robots that had a design life that I think was only 6 months -- if they make it 18 more months, that would be almost 6X the design life.
Nice Job NASA...
Joe J.
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Last edited by Joe Johnson : 06-04-2005 at 14:02.
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