Spirit Opportunity facts
While investigating facts about Spirit Opportunity Mars and Spirit Opportunity Rovers, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Two tools aboard both the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, designed to grind rocks for examination, are made of recycled aluminum from the World Trade Center, recovered after 9/11. Honeybee Robotics, whom constructed the tools, were located in Lower Manhattan, just a mile away from ground zero.
how long did spirit and opportunity last?
Aluminum recovered from the World Trade Center is now used to shield cabling on Mars Rover Spirit and Opportunity.
What happened to spirit and opportunity rovers?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what are spirit and opportunity designed to do. Here are 10 of the best facts about Spirit Opportunity Curiosity and Spirit Opportunity Landing I managed to collect.
what did spirit and opportunity discover?
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Pieces of metal from the fallen WTC's were used on the Mars Rovers 'Spirit' & 'Opportunity', and were "turned into shields to protect cables on the drilling mechanisms".
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There are two robots on Mars - Spirit and Opportunity. They were built to last 90 days on Mars but they lasted for several years. Curiosity is the latest rover to land on Mars to explore the planet.
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Both the Spirit and Opportunity Mars Rovers have pieces of the World Trade Center in them.
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During the first two Mars rover missions (Spirit and Opportunity) Mission Control would play a "wakeup song" at the beginning of each work day related to that day's events. For example, they played "Bad Moon Rising" during the transit of the Martian moon Deimos.
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The mission patch for Spirit and Opportunity were the Looney Tunes characters, Marvin the Martian and Duck Dodgers respectively
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Mars Rover Spirit was designated MER-A or MER-2, while Opportunity MER-B or MER-1. A and B reflected construction order while 1 and 2 reflected landing order.
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Two robots named Opportunity and Spirit were sent to Mars in 2003 by NASA, surviving longer than thought. Spirit was first to go after getting stuck. Opportunity survived longer but eventually met its fate. The last message from it was 'My battery is low, and it's getting dark.'
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VxWorks, an Operating System running space probes and rovers like Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity, needs to be licensed to work
