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"mun or bust!"
What a weird story. Upside-down landing. Rover built by toy company who made Transformers.
It didn't land upside down, it rolled over after touch down due to high lateral velocity after one of its engines malfunctioned (and the whole reason it managed to land softly at all is because onboard software was programmed to handle such cases and find a way to land it anyway).
It would be amazing if they could figure out how to right it.
I mean, the toy did pretty well - it survived the landing and took this picture!
And it reads like it transforms.
An unbelievable image to be sure. The Tommy-bot and Ingenity drone on Mars both really show the fault potential of small cheap bots for exploration.
As for space photo of the decade, well, that's gotta go to the James Webb Telescope for all kinds of discoveries.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2024
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