Mars Curiosity Rover Dead? | NASA JPL

well that was a big waste of money

The aliens found out the rover had a battery charger so they've been using it to recharge their iAlien phones.

really not a bad idea
to let the rover sitting a month in the same place
only to observe "changes" in all those high resolution PICs they got over this time window
so perhaps it is intended

Yeah, the American Desert southwest is a hostile climate.

Look at the high-res images of that thing. Could they have made it ANY more complicated? and ANY more delicate?

Looks pretty dead to me... But then NASA would tell us, right? Never A Straight Answer...

POS cameras they have there... where's the 20 megapixel giant pictures in full color?

Hope they got AAA.


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BumP

It's not the camera's that suck. Rather it's the signal going across space not giving large enough bandwidth to continuously send out HD photos from all 17 cameras and data from the instruments on board at the same time.


Probably has a lot to do with the amount of power needed as well.

Use a lower frequency and you can send signals farther with less interference and use less power. But lower frequencies yield lower bandwidth.