💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🪐🛠️ For 13 years, #NASA’s #Curiosity #rover has survived #Mars thanks to clever fixes by #JPL engineers, like driving backward to protect wheels from sharp boulders, running #computers on less than 1% of original memory, and saving #energy as its #nuclear power source fades.

👉 https://spectrum.ieee.org/curiosity-rover-jpl-mars-science

#engineering #robotics #space #science #marsrover #planet #technology #tech #solutions

Good Morning, all,

excuse my curiosity, but have you ever had trouble freeing a stuck drill bit?

Now imagine if your drill is > 300 million km distant:

https://youtu.be/ztB7lgMxr_g?si=YYnyY5XcTL5c-ZV_

And look what crawled out from under that Martian rock...

#SpoilerAlert

Nothing.

https://youtu.be/_Cxb56lGR38?si=ySXBOK7waqqRairm

Have an enjoyable (and sunny) Bank Holiday

#Mars #Space #SaceExploration
#NASA #JPL #MarsRover #Curiosity
#UnmannedSpace #PlanetaryGeology

Memories from Februaries spent in the #Atacama desert. Team members would take nights off to recover from the heat and do laundry in town, pick up supplies at the hardware store.

Often we had to get those foil-faced windshield covers to protect computers that would overheat in the sun.

Driving through that otherworldly #landscape was exhilarating.

#extremophilia #chile #nasa #marsrover #seti #antofagasta #fieldscience #extremophiles #desert #mondaymemories

@65dBnoise

Sol 1856 - Post-drive 16 tile L-NavCam
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#Perseverance #MarsRover #M2020 #NASA #science #Space #Exploration #Solarocks #Mars #NavCam