Yet Another Cycling Forum

Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: Jaded on 13 February, 2019, 08:41:52 pm

Title: Goodnight, Opportunity
Post by: Jaded on 13 February, 2019, 08:41:52 pm

You did rather better than expected...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47231247

Title: Re: Goodnight, Opportunity
Post by: Basil on 13 February, 2019, 10:22:42 pm

Thanks Oppy.  You done well.

Title: Re: Goodnight, Opportunity
Post by: Pingu on 13 February, 2019, 10:30:49 pm

Ob. xkcd (https://xkcd.com/2111/)

Title: Re: Goodnight, Opportunity
Post by: matthew on 14 February, 2019, 07:40:44 am

Original duration 90 day. Actual service life 16 years!

Title: Re: Goodnight, Opportunity
Post by: Kim on 14 February, 2019, 01:16:03 pm

I'll move this here from the computing thread:

Quote from: Kim on 13 February, 2019, 07:47:31 pm

TIL that Opportunity was having to go into deep sleep mode every night because one of the heaters had failed-on during the landing, and would otherwise drain the battery.  (This may have contributed to its demise, if the realtime clock got reset due to low power.)

Apparently the Lithium-ion battery was at 85% of initial capacity at the end of the mission.  Which (as with the current generation of electric cars) just goes to show how well they can perform when managed properly.