Day 4,870 on Mars, and Opportunity is still rolling....

[Paul F.]

4,870 Earth Days (4,740 Mars Sols) on Mars.

Dragging one wheel, and periodically it's RAM spontaneously "wipes".
Still operational.
Still returning data.

Nothing further to report... at this time.

[ztirffritz]

[Paul F.]

Dammit.. I KNEW someone was going to post that one...

*sniff*

I have something in my eye....

*sniff*

Poor Spirit...
Good little rover... it's OK... it's gonna be OK..

*bawl!*

[Rick-o]

Machines HATE IT when you anthropomorphize them!

[Lew Zealand]

Hmm, outlived it's warranty by 56x. That'd be like getting a Mac now and having it be functional in 2073. Not bad.

[Racer X]

I think it is using a hardened mil-spec 386 processor. There are few left in storage. Interesting to see what they do next.

[NewtonMP2100]

....525,600 minutes.........

[Buzz]

I'm still waiting for those silly kids at JPL to realize they've been catphished by Voyager 3 impersonating Opportunity... V3 was pissed that his mission to interstellar space was scrapped after his older siblings got off and got their glory, so what better way to have fun with the SGV Nerd Herd?
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[Filliam H. Muffman]

"...hardened mil-spec 386 processor..."

I would be tempted to use a PPC processor. Assembly code for those is a lot easier to write.

[p8712]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
"...hardened mil-spec 386 processor..."

I would be tempted to use a PPC processor. Assembly code for those is a lot easier to write.

I think one of the later probes runs in a G3 ppc.

Why haven't we just duplicated this design and dropped a dozen of them on Mars by now?