Both Rovers have celebrated 3-year anniversaries on surface of Mars: a) More than ten times design life; b) Planned and implemented rigorous assembly and system level test programs; c) Demonstrated robust thermal margins; d)Tested both in vacuum and Mars atmosphere; e) Planned and implemented thermal cycling life qualification program; f) Demonstrated survival in deep thermal diurnal cycling and seasonal temperature variations; and g) Both Rovers continue to explore and return valuable science data
Testing of the Mars Exploration Rovers to Survive the Extreme Thermal Environments
IMAP 2nd Advanced Technology Workshop on Reliability of Advanced Packages and Devices in Extreme Cold Environments ; 2007 ; Arcadia, CA, United States
27.02.2007
Preprint
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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