[time-nuts] Space mission comes to an end becuase of a "computer time tagging" problem
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sat Sep 21 21:40:49 EDT 2013
jimlux at earthlink.net said:
> If it gets cold enough (without power from solar cells, it won't generate
> enough internal heat to keep warm), it will die. That's probably what
> happened to Spirit on Mars. It got cold enough during the Martian winter,
> and with not enough solar power, enough things drifted cold enough that we
> couldn't get commands in.
What stops working when things get cold?
On Mars, the solar cells are pointed in the right direction. Why doesn't it
recover when the sun comes back in the Spring?
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