Here's more new from the Mars Rover missions.
Regarding the overall health of the twin vessels of Mars exploration, both robots continue to perform well.
Several things could kill the rovers, such as a key electronic part failure or the wearing down of a critical mechanical piece of equipment. To date it has been so far, so good as the robots continue to march their way across the Martian landscape.
"If both of those things hold out, then what is probably going to get us is dust build-up on the solar arrays," Squyres said. "Right now, we're seeing a pretty sharp drop off in solar power on both vehicles. That's a consequence of both the onset of winter and declining solar power because of the dust build-up."
Despite this issue, Squyres said rover engineers think the two robots will survive through the winter and to the next spring on Mars.
They think the Robots might make it to the next Martian winter if they can survive this winter. That's nearly another 2 Standard Earth Years of operability, is it not?
Woohoo!
- Art Neuro
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