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Old 08-13-2012, 10:38 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Updating Curiosity's firmware now. Do not power down Curiosity.
NASA upgrades Mars Curiosity software ... from 350M miles away - Computerworld

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Curiosity's computer was out of date before they even launched. It's probably getting Adobe updates. LOL

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Ah crap Jim, I clicked shutdown instead of reboot!

I read somewhere else that it only has 4GB of storage on it. Wonder why so little.
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Just hope they remember this time to convert miles to kilometers.

But then its hard to fall off a crater.
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Hopefully they don't get any "Fatal Exception" errors.
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Ah crap Jim, I clicked shutdown instead of reboot!

I read somewhere else that it only has 4GB of storage on it. Wonder why so little.
I think I read that was the largest available that had been tested and proven to withstand the environment to which Curiosity would be subjected. Temps, vibration, G-Forces etc.

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I read somewhere else that it only has 4GB of storage on it. Wonder why so little.
I think that was considered state of the art in 2004 when it was first designed.
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