[Year 12 IT Apps] [Oz-teachers] Amnesiac Mars Rover Is Getting Brain Surgery

[ken price]

That is an incredible reflection on the designers and engineers who built
and programmed this machine (as it happens, one of them lives here in
Hobart).

To put it in perspective, ever had a mechanic try to fix an intermittent
problem in a 10 year old car? Now think of the car as being a one-off, with
no dealer network or spare parts supply chain. Oh, and it's so far away
that even a message takes 15 minutes or so to get there. And you can't
directly touch it. Like trying to change a flat tyre using chopsticks only
worse.

Oh, and it was only designed to last a few months...

A remarkable piece of technology.

kp

On Monday, January 26, 2015, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The Mars rover Opportunity surprised everyone by exploring for more than a
> decade after its mission ended. sadly it is showing signs of slowing down
> with failing flash memory. Fascinating IT problem with a remote NASA hack
> to upgrade and reboot. - Roland
>
>
> http://gizmodo.com/amnesiac-mars-rover-is-getting-brain-surgery-from-milli-167709089
> <http://gizmodo.com/amnesiac-mars-rover-is-getting-brain-surgery-from-milli-1677090895>
>
> As mwhite66 <http://mwhite66.kinja.com/> pointed out ...
>
> [image: Amnesiac Mars Rover Is Getting Brain Surgery From Millions of
> Miles Away]
>
>
>

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Dr Ken Price MACS CP ACCE Professional Associate.
President, TASITE http://www.tasite.tas.edu.au
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