Great Quote from a NASA site

[CodeOfLight]

Favorite quote from the mars rover NASA site.

Found here : http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/mars_mer_feature_20070612.html

I added the highlighting.

"Rover engineer Dan Porter has been tracking temperatures recorded by 50 or so sensors on each of the rovers since shortly after they landed on Mars in January 2004. The results are not only of interest to scientists, they're a favorite of human audiences as well."

 

[knot]

lol -

they're a favorite of human audiences as well.

 

[gadget_lover]

Does anyone else wonder why they need 50 termperature sensors on a vehicle that small. Talk about micro-climes!

 

[knot]

built in redundancy. A backup for your backup.

 

[Scottiver]

Fifty is one, forty is none.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

NASA comes up with some great quotes.

A long time ago, when they launched one of the early moon missions, there was a point in the mission where the capsule was orbiting the moon and was about to pass behind it. They expected to lose radio contact when the capsule went behind the moon, and sure enough, they did.

At which point a NASA mission controller said, "We have achieved loss of signal."

Only a group of NASA nerds could call that an achievement! :laughing: