Comments on: Approaching a record on Mars http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2007/07/21/approaching-a-record-on-mars/ The odd parity bit Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:15:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Stephane http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2007/07/21/approaching-a-record-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-15625 Stephane Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:06:36 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2007/07/21/approaching-a-record-on-mars/#comment-15625 The people who worked on these rovers are genius. I mean, drop-and-bounce-landing a golf sized cart rover, having it running on its own for 3 years despite a flaky wheel, a trap sand, a defective flash module and so on, on a planet where the temperature averages -100, make it drive for about 10km and oh, no other source of power than the sun and rechargeable batteries. Now the dust might shut it down for a while, until a dust devil cleanse it out and with a little bit of chance, the "get-the-hell-out-of-the-deep-sleep" mode will wake up the rover again! Way to go. Stephane, Val-des-Monts, QC The people who worked on these rovers are genius. I mean, drop-and-bounce-landing a golf sized cart rover, having it running on its own for 3 years despite a flaky wheel, a trap sand, a defective flash module and so on, on a planet where the temperature averages -100, make it drive for about 10km and oh, no other source of power than the sun and rechargeable batteries. Now the dust might shut it down for a while, until a dust devil cleanse it out and with a little bit of chance, the “get-the-hell-out-of-the-deep-sleep” mode will wake up the rover again!

Way to go.
Stephane, Val-des-Monts, QC

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