I hope one day Curiosity will be an exhibit in one of the first Martian exploration museums established on the red planet. The rover can stand proudly in warm, cozy structure after decades of research on the brutal surface.
I hope one day Curiosity will be an exhibit in one of the first Martian exploration museums established on the red planet. The rover can stand proudly in warm, cozy structure after decades of research on the brutal surface.
The happy ending: https://imgur.com/he-did-good-job-VbKV9DF
Damn you for making my eyes well up
What was that movie (one of many I am sure) ...
... were our imperiled heroes save their 'hinds by locating and jerryrigging a defunct piece of hardware that was left behind from a previous mission?
I think that's The Martian, where the Pathfinder is used as a communication device.
Bingo.-
This was also a plot point used much before The Martian; in the 2000 Val Kilmer film Red Planet- stranded astronauts make their way to the spot where Pathfinder's 'Sojourner' rover rests, in order to pull it's radio and use it to communicate an SOS with the orbiting station.
It's been a long time since I've seen that (widely panned as not-very-good) movie, but I feel I remember a line about the little rover using an 'off the shelf computer modem' - this is actually true, the little rover communicated back to the Pathfinder base station with a straight up off-the-shelf RS232 9600bps wireless transparent modem link. [0] [1] I remember that detail as it showed that, even though the movie itself was... uhhh... interesting, science-wise, it clearly had someone in an advisory role that knew something about real JPL hardware on Mars at the time.
[0] https://urgentcomm.com/public-safety/data-communications-fro...
[1] http://www.iki.rssi.ru/mpfmirror/rovercom/itworks.html#rover...
I watched that as a kid and absolutely loved it. Not sure what warranted the bad reviews.
It’s very sci-fi but felt “grounded”.
It also has this gem of a line:
This is it. That moment they told us in high school where one day, algebra would save our lives.
> Val Kilmer film Red Planet-
Actually this is the one I was thinking of ...
... the one were the guy ludicrously jumps between orbiting crafts at the last minute, and, thus, makes it back to Earth.-
Gotta say I found it entertaining.-