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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Tweets from Mars

Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:24 AM

You can follow them here...

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The robot has a sense of humor...

Let's hope what happened to Spirit (click on the broken image) does not happen to Curiosity.

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That is funny, but why didn't you just link to the second image yourself?

Working link:
http://astroengine.files.wordpress.com/2…

Posted by Theodore Gorath on August 9, 2012 at 9:37 AM

Calamity Charles = Debbie Downer

Posted by Vancouverite on August 9, 2012 at 9:44 AM

Even better:

https://twitter.com/SarcasticRover

Posted by Valpey on August 9, 2012 at 9:55 AM

Even funnier than the automated tweets are the responses to private twitter messages.

And the lol cat photos Curiosity sends.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on August 9, 2012 at 11:15 AM

Since Curiosity is run by a nuclear battery designed to last ten years, it won't undergo the same fate as solar-powered Spirit, exactly. The nuke-battery will die, and it will be anticipated, and the rover will stop communicating & go cold. But NASA will know when that is. With Spirit there was a lot more uncertainty... did the antennae break? software problem? dusty solar panels? etc.

3, Yes!

Posted by treacle on August 9, 2012 at 11:48 AM

Remember that Spirit was not a failure. Spirit was an enormous success. Her original mission was ninety days. She lasted more than twenty times that. Scientists' careers were stalled for YEARS because the little rover just wouldn't die so they couldn't move on to other projects.

Posted by Thesoro on August 9, 2012 at 12:58 PM