NASA's Mars rover Curiosity had an attitude problem. (But it's fine now.)
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity had an attitude problem. (But it's fine now.)
From Space.com:
"An attitude problem sidelined NASA's Mars rover Curiosity recently, but the robot's handlers whipped it back into shape in short order.
"Partway through its last set of activities, Curiosity lost its orientation. Some knowledge of its attitude was not quite right, so it couldn't make the essential safety evaluation," Curiosity team member Dawn Sumner, a planetary geologist at the University of California, Davis, wrote in a mission update on Monday (Jan. 20)."
https://www.space.com/mars-rover-curios ... litch.html
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"An attitude problem sidelined NASA's Mars rover Curiosity recently, but the robot's handlers whipped it back into shape in short order.
"Partway through its last set of activities, Curiosity lost its orientation. Some knowledge of its attitude was not quite right, so it couldn't make the essential safety evaluation," Curiosity team member Dawn Sumner, a planetary geologist at the University of California, Davis, wrote in a mission update on Monday (Jan. 20)."
https://www.space.com/mars-rover-curios ... litch.html
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Re: NASA's Mars rover Curiosity had an attitude problem. (But it's fine now.)
Well if you have to work alone on Mars every day, you've earned the right to a little attitude.
Any metaphor will tear if stretched over too much reality.
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Gary C
Celestron Astro Master 130mm f5 Newtonian GEM
Meade 114-EQ-DH f7.9 Newtonian w/ manual GEM
Bushnell 90mm f13.9 Catadioptric
Gskyer 80mm f5 Alt/Az refractor
Jason 10x50 Binoculars
Celestron 7x50 Binoculars
Svbony 2.1x42 Binoculars
(And a bunch of stuff I'm still trying to fix or find parts for.)
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