Opportunity rover turns 13

Originally planned to operate for 90 days, the rover is now it's 13th year of operation on the surface of Mars.

How can other countries even compete?

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Please remind me. When was the last time NASA sent a rocket to space with people?

How do they power it?

>How can other countries even compete?

Maybe by giving their citizens healthcare and not cucking them by driving a remote toy on mars?

photovoltaic panels

Solar power. Without the atmosphere it's efficiency is better there than on Earth

Solar panels

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But you get nice pictures from it

are you somehow braindead?

"Free" Healtcare is the biggest bullshit ever.
It's not free, you have to pay for it.
The waiting time for simple thing can be months, even half a year

Jews made it. Jews are superior.

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>It's not free, you have to pay for it


Do you even know how your own healthcare system works?

You pay for it in a special tax.

you pay taxes anyways, it's basically free

long extension cable

Fuck you stupid commie, I want to go to space

this is one powerful shitpost

10% of our wage goes to this shitty free healtcare. Plus we need to bribe the doctors

I'm just a little upset that unlike you I don't have free healthcare

greenland is a big country.

>the rover is programmed to sing Happy Birthday every year to itself

>Originally planned to operate for 90 days
>programmed to sing a song every year

>How can other countries even compete?
>Meanwhile, Russia has this BIG ASS STATION just floating around. What dumbasses!

floating around at the bottom of the Pacific, maybe

Is it actually in the original code, or is it an update they sent to it?

waste of fucking time and money senpai. photovoltaic\radioisotope powered > retarded ass shit that requires gorillion types of food+ oxygen and has tiny tolerances to pressure,temperature,radiation and has to be pressurized.

>pot kalling the kettle black.

And yet they are sending them, but using Russian rockets, because they don't tend to blow up

Lamo

it dos'nt play songs you dumb fuck there's barely any atmosphere ,no one to hear and they didnt install fucking speakers on it because it would be a waste of time.

sending them to a place where the primary experiment is them, also sending them to a place which is close as fuck and is practically on earth .

They send batteries every day.

>10% of our wage goes to this shitty free healtcare

thats still cheap

>Plus we need to bribe the doctors

lol, no you don't

the earth is flat. Mars isn't a real place

youtube.com/watch?v=uxVVgBAosqg

Big fucking deal. There's nothing on Mars worth knowing about. Fuck all you spacefags

Every time an aids infested nigger fucks your mother's asshole, 6 million volts get uploaded to rover

It's curiousity that does that, not opportunity

>lol, no you don't
if we want to wait years for treatment or even diagnosis we don't, but if we don't want to die we must

We drew a dick on Mars for the hell of it.

Suck it.

kek

Humans like in the matrix

>work work..
>has it been 90 days already?
>Surely I get to see home again soon
>I'm a good rover
>just a while longer...
mfw

Mars has an atmosphere, it's just thinner that ours.

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>if we want to wait years for treatment or even diagnosis we don't, but if we don't want to die we must


proxyfag plz leave

Magyar vagyok, hogy bizonyítsam?

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I can google translate too

for what purpose

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how did it take a picture of itself?

Katonácskák: szeletelt kifli, megkenve vajjal, rá egy szelet kolbász és sajt

for whatever purpose they using the russian space ships

>Try to tell a European how his country works
>Get btfo
>Accuse him of having a proxy

pfft, lightweight.

Voyager has been operating 37 years past the end of it's initial mission, and is still sending data back

Its cheaper to rent Russian rockets than it is to build our own
NASA is unning on a severely cut budget.

And Yurop can't even land a simple stationary probe on the surface of Mars. Meanwhile, we send a SUV-sized rover lowered by a goddamn skycrane.

that's a 3D render

Opportunity's cameras aren't on an arm like Curiosity, so the best selfie it can take is pic related

solar and nuclear reactor.

shut the fuck up

Come back here when youre 18 or older kiddo

Opportunity uses solar panels only.
Curiosity is powered by a radioisotope thermal generator, which uses radioactive decay heat to generate electricity, but is not quite what you would call a "nuclear reactor"

who the fuck was filming this? do people actually fall for this shit?

this is what i meant for rovers in general. im just lazy

I'm 26 you moron

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it's an animation

this is the onboard video of the landing
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prove it

I bet you don't even have a big hairy scrotum

Must have been one of those LiveLeak fags as much as the camera was shaking. If only it was a sideways phone vid we'd know for sure it was.

stop proxyaging faggot

are you actually this stupid or are you just pretending?

Its obviously a render

Obviously it's a mosaic of several photos. That's why the flag was flapping and you can't see any stars.

nasa admitted to faking mars pics and tried to play it off as a experiment. a tree stump in one pic was proven to not be on mars.

some idiots thought it was a space crab but the exact location of the pic was found in america

no they didn't

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Isnt it just idling and doing some "Hello World!" chitchat? Not exactly "in service" I would say.

They should uplink Tay to it and turn it loose with Sup Forums. We could MMGA.

No. It's still moving around and making observations.

You're thinking of Spirit, it's twin. It got stuck in soft soil and continued operating for about a year before finally dying in 2010.