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dtb — 3/13/2005 2:05:15 AM (archived)

>Opportunity will "never die"

This is wonderful, it's so cool what happened to Spirit!

But that comment did give me an awful thought.

Much as I hope Gary is wrong, if Oppy does last for years and years, at least we may be able to inspect the wreckage after the MSR "skycrane" augers in to the Meridiani plains....

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Spirit - Dust Devil in Action... - Doug Ellison - 3/10/2005 11:34:47 PM
- NASA press release on the dust devils - Tom Brosz - 3/16/2005 2:57:21 AM
- re: More Power! - Raoul - 3/12/2005 10:03:57 PM
- Clean solar cells--the truth revealed! - Tom Brosz - 3/11/2005 7:17:01 PM
  - ROTFL. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 3/11/2005 7:26:18 PM
- re: Spirit - Dust Devil in Action... - Jacob Samorodin - 3/11/2005 6:16:09 PM
  - Lightning - Tom Brosz - 3/11/2005 7:05:47 PM
    - re: Lightning - Doug Ellison - 3/12/2005 12:58:13 AM
    - re: Lightning - Jacob Samorodin - 3/11/2005 7:24:50 PM
- **** me - another one - or maybe the same one - Doug Ellison - 3/11/2005 12:27:54 AM
  - Fantastic Picture! - Gary - 3/11/2005 6:55:26 AM
    - re: Fantastic Picture! - Doug Ellison - 3/11/2005 8:01:05 AM
      - Dust - Tom Brosz - 3/11/2005 7:04:24 PM
        
        re: Dust - Doug Ellison - 3/13/2005 12:58:27 AM
        
        Thanks! I've since heard the same. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/13/2005 7:34:55 AM
      - The two MERs might(?) be "near" immortal - Gary - 3/11/2005 6:44:08 PM
        
        re: The two MERs might(?) be "near" immortal - LJK - 3/11/2005 9:32:30 PM
        
        re: The two MERs might(?) be "near" immortal - dtb - 3/13/2005 2:05:15 AM
        
        re: The two MERs might(?) be "near" immortal - Delbert - 3/13/2005 5:51:05 AM
        
        What about the limited number of battery recharges? (n/t) - Robert Clark - 3/12/2005 5:20:51 AM
        
        Bad batteries killed Mars Pathfinder - Gary - 3/12/2005 6:05:55 PM
        
        What was Sojourner's safing mode? - E.P. Grondine - 3/16/2005 5:58:26 PM
        
        re: Bad batteries killed Mars Pathfinder - LJK - 3/12/2005 10:15:38 PM
        
        re: Bad batteries killed Mars Pathfinder - Doug Ellison - 3/13/2005 1:04:19 AM
        
        I dont think ANYONE has been critical of the MER engineering - R.L. (The king of digression) - 3/13/2005 4:56:25 AM
        
        agreed re work - Daniel - 3/13/2005 6:48:30 AM
        
        re: Bad batteries killed Mars Pathfinder - LJK - 3/13/2005 2:23:58 AM
        
        re: Bad batteries killed Mars Pathfinder - Doug Ellison - 3/13/2005 3:31:37 AM
        
        re: Bad batteries killed Mars Pathfinder - LJK - 3/13/2005 11:46:26 AM
        
        Doug, you're drinking too much coffee - Gary - 3/13/2005 1:43:07 AM
        
        re: What about the limited number of battery recharges? - Doug Ellison - 3/12/2005 10:35:11 AM
        
        re: I agree 100% - Nathan Koren - 3/11/2005 7:03:26 PM
        
        re: The two MERs might(?) be "near" immortal - Doug Ellison - 3/11/2005 6:59:08 PM
      - "Dust Devil Weather?" A speculation - Tom Brosz - 3/11/2005 5:05:45 PM
        
        re: "Dust Devil Weather?" A speculation - Doug Ellison - 3/12/2005 1:03:59 AM
        
        The Dust Devil did do it. - Buck Galaxy - 3/12/2005 6:45:07 AM
        
        re: The Dust Devil did do it. - Tom Brosz - 3/12/2005 9:30:46 PM
        
        Great suggestion (n/t) - R.L. - 3/14/2005 5:44:47 AM
        
        re: Spirit's recent tracks - Nathan Koren - 3/11/2005 6:55:24 PM
        
        re: "Dust Devil Weather?" A speculation - Buck Galaxy - 3/11/2005 6:37:08 PM
      - telemetry evidence of power increase? - JimO - 3/11/2005 4:40:32 PM
        
        Has there ever been evidence of such cleaning during daylight hours? A possible physics explanation for the cleanings.... - R.L. - 3/12/2005 7:17:27 AM
      - re: You're shitting me...? - Nathan Koren - 3/11/2005 8:31:45 AM
        
        DUST DEVIL CLEANS SPIRITS PANELS!!!!!!!!! - Buck Galaxy - 3/11/2005 8:41:46 AM
        
        re: DUST DEVIL CLEANS SPIRITS PANELS!!!!!!!!! - Nathan Koren - 3/11/2005 9:39:31 AM
  - Good catch! - Tom Brosz - 3/11/2005 1:35:53 AM
- All right! Knew they'd nail one sooner or later. - Tom Brosz - 3/10/2005 11:58:33 PM
- Awesome! - Buck Galaxy - 3/10/2005 11:57:34 PM
- re: Spirit - Dust Devil in Action... - Daniel Crotty - 3/10/2005 11:53:54 PM
  - Dust Devil, the Movie - LJK - 3/14/2005 1:21:36 PM
    - Steven Squyres talks about the long-lasting Mars Rovers - LJK - 3/16/2005 7:47:54 PM

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