Spirit now living longer than Viking 2 |
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Spirit now living longer than Viking 2 |
 Aug 14 2007, 03:51 AM
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There are more, gradually improving tau measurements on Dr. Lemmon's dust devil movie page. He also notes that Happy VL2 Day for Spirit was sol 1282.
QUOTE *) Sol 1282 : Happy VL2 day to Spirit! By completing sol 1282, Spirit surpassed Viking Lander 2 for longevity on Mars. VL2 operated from sol 0 to 1280; Spirit's mission counts from sol 1.
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Aug 14 2007, 01:44 PM
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Aug 14 2007, 08:27 PM
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QUOTE (Zvezdichko @ Aug 11 2007, 07:20 AM)  According to wikipedia info: I personally don't believe that at least one of the rovers will live longer than Viking 1 ( the other lander ). How many sols did Viking 1 last? |
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Aug 14 2007, 09:42 PM
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QUOTE (alan @ Aug 14 2007, 09:27 PM) How many sols did Viking 1 last? 2245 Still a way to go... Ha! I admit didn't remember the exact number of sols off hand so i looked on Wikipedia. I then went back and looked at what reference they had, only to find it links to a UMSF thread, where I gave the answer last time! -------------------- |
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Aug 15 2007, 12:20 AM
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The WWW thus becomes a loop (dare I say an orbit?) around UMSFers!
 Now, here's my plan...
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Aug 15 2007, 04:16 AM
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That's an interesting story, James, to find a reference linked back to yourself here. In my experience, the UMSF forum frequently floats to the top of the list when I google space topics of interest to me.
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Aug 15 2007, 07:57 AM
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Quite often I'll be researching for a talk, and googling for a subject - only to find myself linked into UMSF again... 'NO...I KNOW that bit already!'
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Aug 20 2007, 08:59 PM
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Regression:
See: Regression 
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Aug 25 2007, 10:17 AM
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QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Aug 14 2007, 11:42 PM) 2245 To be fair, we can also consider the sum of V1+V2 to be compared to the sum Spirit+Oppy so, it'll be less than another 500 sols for the MERS to beat the VIKINGS. Any MERS in Minnesota ?
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Aug 25 2007, 03:56 PM
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Colourful tribute to the occasion here.
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Sep 2 2007, 10:35 AM
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It's now the afternoon of B1282 and so Oppy outlives Viking 2 as well.
  Roll on A1774/B1754 (I think) to break the combined sols mark. James -------------------- |
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 Sep 16 2007, 09:19 AM
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The Viking spacecraft hardware:
Viking 1: Launched 20 August 1975 Viking 1 lander: Touch down: 20 July 1976 Shut down: mid November 1982 Viking 1 orbiter powered down on 17 August 1980 (1400 orbits) Viking2: Launched 9 September 1975 Viking 2 lander: Touch down: 3 September 1976 Shut down: mid April 1980 Viking 2 orbiter powered down on 25 July 1978 (706 orbits) See my avatar to see how engineers were dreaming to drive around in a Viking 3 rover 
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Sep 16 2007, 02:45 PM
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QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Sep 2 2007, 05:35 AM) Roll on A1774/B1754 (I think) to break the combined sols mark. My first reaction to that statement was "Gods, that's another 500 sols!" My second reaction to it is "Gee -- only another 500 sols?" -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Oct 8 2007, 08:04 PM
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Yesterday, Today or Tomorrow, depending if you live in New Zealand or Hawaii
 , MER will get to 4 Martian years roving on Mars
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Oct 10 2007, 01:24 AM
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These rovers are incredible. I propose we change Spirit's name to Old Faithful and Opportunity's to Slightly-Less-Old Faithful.
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