#spirit rover

[senkusphone]

On the day Senku was born, NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars. January 4th, 2004.

#dr. stone trivia #Spirit rover #NASA Spirit #dcst #dr stone #dr. stone #drstone #dcst senku #dr stone senku #senku dr stone #senku ishigami

[canisbeanz]

April 6: Opportunity

The siblings give Oppy a good scrub and a fix up!

#IM SO LATE HIS BDAY ONE IS COMING LATER I PROMISE #i saw the prompt 'opportunity' and it was the first thing i thought of #spirit and oppy have my whole heart and i hope we can go get them one day<3 #my art #artists on tumblr #canis art #astroboyfanweek2024 #tetsuwan atom #astro boy 2003 #Uran #Reno #mars rover #oppertunity rover #spirit rover #astro boy

[krakenmare]

Spirit: Phobos in eclipse (December 5, 2005)

#spirit rover #mars planet #mars #astronomy #astrophotography #solar system #outer space #nasa #thank you nasa #space #moon #martian eclipse #eclipse

[whirligig-girl]

Ayo has NASA ever shown any pics of Mars moons in it's sky? I NEED TO KNOW

a couple asks ago i showed an example of this. here’s a few more:

annular solar eclipse/transit of Phobos across the Sun from Curiosity.

transit of Deimos across the Sun from Curiosity.

Occultation of Deimos by Phobos as seen by Curiosity.

The telephoto cameras used for navigation on Mars are also capable of being used as weak telescopes. (I do not know how they safely get photos of the Sun, though. Even at Mars distance that would still fry the sensors--so i assume they must have put a solar filter on the instrument specifically for this use case.)

While looking for images I came across this really cool one from Spirit:

The bright moon-like glow is Phobos. The dimmer dot is Deimos. Towards the bottom of the image is the Hyades cluster, and the bright star Aldeberan. In the lower left is the Pleiades cluster. This is an approximately naked eye-like view (well, maybe 2x or 3x magnification), except that with the naked eye Phobos would not look overexposed.This is really striking to me because this actually feels like a view of the night sky on Earth, yet with alien moons. Really cool.

Here’s a labelled, overexposed version:

I don’t think there’s been any color pictures of this done because Mars rovers are not astronomical observatories and because there’s not much color detail actually visible in the moons. And I assume aside from the solar eclipse pictures these images were all taken at night, with pitch-black skies and nearly black horizons.

This evening or afternoon image depicting Phobos as seen by Curiosity is a composite image--Phobos is probably much brighter here than it would really look during the day on Mars.

Deimos is visible in this poorly white-balanced shot of Mars from Perseverence. The sky is green here but Mars’ sky is really more of a yellow or brown color.

Here is almost the reverse--seen from an orbiting satellite, here is Phobos against the limb (edge of the visible disk; horizon) of Mars. I believe terrain looks weirdly flattened and a little distorted here due to lensing from Mars’ atmosphere--you can see how the effect gets worse closer to the limb. A similar effect, but more significant, can happen when looking at the limb of the Earth from space. Space probes use multiple color filters to take color photos, but when it comes to fast moving targets it’s not possible to switch colors in time, which is why this image is in grayscale. Notice also how dark Phobos is--it’s almost black. It only appears bright against the even blacker space. This is also true of the Moon, incidentally, but the effect is even more pronounced with Phobos.

#Mars #Phobos #Deimos #Planetary Science #Astronomy #Spirit rover #Curiosity #Perseverence #Mars2020 #Space

[justheretolurk24]

So the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, aka the satellite that collected data proving the ozone layer was shrinking, which led to climate legislation being passed, recently reentered the atmosphere and came back to Earth. The ERBS was expected to last for 2 years, but it ended up operating and collecting data for 21 years.

This got me thinking - the exceeding of lifespans seems to be a trend in NASA's instruments. I feel like the obvious example people think of is the Opportunity rover (expected to last 90 Mars days (about 3 Earth months), instead operated for almost 15 years), but there's more than just Oppy

Spirit was launched slightly before Opportunity to a different area of Mars, and was similarly expected to live for 90 Martian days. Spirit operated for about 6 years

Curiosity's first mission was 2 years long. Its power system was required to last 1 Mars year (687 Earth days). It's been 10 years and she's still going

The Hubble telescope was expected to live for 15 years, and we're still getting data from it even after the launch of JWST

Perseverance is expected to operate after the completion of its first mission, which I think is finishing this year?

And like yeah you could call it a miracle or really good luck, but I think that's not entirely the case

The instruments were designed to last. They were built with the knowledge that they couldn't just come back for repairs, and a person couldn't easily be sent out to go fix them when something went wrong. We gave them tools to fix themselves, and sent instructions on how to solve their problems when their wheels broke or they got stuck in the sand. And when we Could send someone for repairs, like with Hubble, we did

There's probably a more eloquent/poetic way to put this, that would pierce my heart and pull tears out of my eyes, but I just think it's neat that humans try to make things last. We put effort into things and celebrate when they exceed our expectations, and give them more to do when they're done with their tasks. We reach out to rovers long after they go silent in the hopes that they'll come back to us, that they'll find a way through the storm. We tell them to drive backwards when their front wheel stops working, so they have an easier time rolling. We fix their mirrors when they crack. We understand that their time is precious, so we give them only the most important of missions. We care about these pieces of machinery that we could easily throw away or replace

We care

And I think that's beautiful

#space #erbs satellite #erbs #nasa #opportunity #opportunity rover #curiosity rover #spirit rover #hubble #hubble telescope #jwst #i love space #space play #we fix things under the guide of usefulness and convenience #but is that really it? #my own posts

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"14 years ago today, on March 1, 2010, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's #Marsrover #Spirit captured this view comprising its final pancam images showing one of its wheels stuck in soft sand around an area in #GusevCrater called Home Plate. Communication from Spirit ended 3 weeks later."

#SPirit Rover #Mars Rover #Gusev Crater #NASA #NASA JPL #NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

[rose-sparks13]

Not me crying over the Good bye Oppy documentary 😭😭

#opportunity rover #spirit rover #mars rover #im crying #humans will pack bond with anything #documentary

[faeriequeen67]

Shit, I'm only 5 minutes in to Good Night Oppy and I'm already crying.

#goodnight oppy #opportunity rover #spirit rover #mars rover #science #Mars

[afriendlyneighborhoodhufflepuff]

Was WALL•E’s design based on the Mars Rovers?? Cause he looks like Spirit and Oppy and I’m a little emotional about it

#friendly neighborhood hufflepuff speaks #wall·e #oppy #spirit rover #opportunity rover

[helljunker]

ohh im a wild free rover...

#my art #gjinka #17776 #oc art #androids #dscpcast #digital #spirit #ocs not mine: #phoenix #curiosity #lyrics are from rdr2 #its one of the campfire songs :'3 #i miss these guys hehe //breals down #/pos!!!! #spirit rover #curiosity rover #phoenix lander #its rtl reading btw

[omgpoindexter]

aliens were probably watching us drive the spirit rover backwards in a wobbly line and giggling

#spirit rover #expedition mars #shutupmia.txt

[dromaeo-sauridae]

🌻

i was gonna come in with a space or ocean or cave fact and if something comes to mind before im done saying what i want to then i’ll add it but ive realized something really funny

both me and my brother LOVE space. we constantly read about it, watch videos, talk about it. but the thing is, my brother likes SPACECRAFT and i enjoy CELESTIAL BODIES. we speak the same language but two different dialects. sometimes we’re able to understand each other, but sometimes we just. do not fucking get it.

which makes me think of the mars rover opportunity. she was so important to learning about mars, but i dont think as many people know that she had a sister named spirit. spirit unfortunately stopped working long before opportunity did, but they both greatly exceeded their lifespans and contributed to INSANE amounts of new knowledge. next time you see mars in the sky give a wave for opportunity and spirit (and all the other rovers ofc)

#people talking to me #mars #opportunity rover #spirit rover

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I want to make a life size replica of a Mars Exploration Rover; Spirit was MER-A, and Opportunity was MER-B, so mine would be their long lost triplet MER-C. What's a good rover name? I'm thinking something like Endurance, Navigator, Vanguard, Resolution, one of those names that just sound like they're a spacecraft. What's a good companion name for Spirit and Opportunity?

#mars rover #mars exploration rover #spirit #opportunity #spirit rover #opportunity rover #mer-a #mer-b #mars #rover

[krakenmare]

Spirit: Martian Dust Devils (February 26, 2007)

#spirit #spirit rover #astronomy #krakenmare #astrophotography #solar system #outer space #space #nasa #thank you nasa #dust devil #planets #mars planet #mars

[rabbitcruiser]

The Spirit rover was launched on June 10, 2003, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission.    

#Verkehrshaus der Schweiz #Swiss Museum of Transport #Luzern #Lucerne #Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex #Floria #USA #travel #summer 2009 #vacation #logo #National Aeronautics and Space Administration #NASA #replica #Spirit rover #launched #1o June 2003 #20th anniversary #US history #technology #engineering #original photography #Mars Exploration Rover mission #tourist attraction #landmark

[the-rovarians]

Yeah, this is funny:

#spirit rover #opportunity rover #mars rovers #bernie sanders meme #stupid nasa memes #really stupid nasa memes #hella stupid nasa memes