[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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