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February 13, 2019, at 22 hours Moscow time live broadcast from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA (video). Her employees live talk about all of them Attempts to restore the Opportunity rover who lost contact with Earth on June 10, 2018 due to started on the Red Planet dust storm.
It was because of the storm that the solar panels of the rover could no longer provide the apparatus with the necessary energy, and he, having used up the supply batteries, almost “dead.” When the storm has passed, all attempts specialists to find and revive the rover were unsuccessful. how says John Callas, his team took an active search first rover, then switched to passive, that is, through listening recordings made by the most sensitive radio equipment.
By February of this year, the passive part also ended a failure. Laboratory specialists tried to switch the rover to backup radio transmitter and did much more, however in in the end it was not easy, but it seems the most true the solution is to stop the revitalization of the Opportunity rover.
At a briefing, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory staff talked about all this in more detail, in particular, why nevertheless, it was decided to stop working with the rover. I think the main the reason for this will be called advancing to the southern part of Krasnaya planets where the apparatus just stuck, Martian winter. Soon the temperature will drop sharply, and this will cause irreparable damage to the rover battery, then talk about restoring An Opportunity will simply be pointless …
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