Mars Science Laboratory Mission: Curiosity
Mars Science Laboratory Mission: Curiosity
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NASA's Curiosity rover is almost fully reprogrammed for its two-year science mission on Mars, and mission managers say it should be ready to take its first short drive in about a week. The software for science operations, known as R10, has already been installed successfully on the rover's primary computer and is currently managing the rover's functions. All that remained was to finish installing the same software on the backup computer.The software switchover called for removing the thousands of lines of code that were required for managing Curiosity's flight from Earth to Mars, as well as the instructions for the entry, descent and landing sequence known as the "seven minutes of terror." The R10 software package instead provides Curiosity with full use of its autonomous driving system and all the tools on its robotic arm. Curiosity's 4 gigabytes of data storage capacity wasn't enough to hold the entire software suite in its brain simultaneously.
- This color image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows an area excavated by the blast of the descent stage rocket engines.ghandolf
- Cool. Rocks. Bro.CygnusZero4
- Curiosity's 4GBs of data storage capacity wasn't enough - (should've used a larger USB stick!)ghandolf
- rocks! on mars!sine
- 4 Gigas?!?!? my phone haz more than thatCALLES
- Aye but pictures of your dick only take up a couple of hundred Kb, Calles.detritus