02-13-2019, 07:32 PM
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover sends it's final message
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“My battery is low and it’s getting dark.”
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover was built to operate for just 90 days, but kept going for 15 years.
The solar-powered rover was, in the end, doomed by a ferocious dust storm.
Flight controllers tried numerous times to make contact, and sent one final series of recovery commands Tuesday night along with one last wake-up song, Billie Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You," in a somber exercise that brought tears to team members' eyes. There was no response from space, only silence.
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Very cool story.
https://abc7chicago.com/science/my-b...tists/5137455/
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