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


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    Title :

    Testing of the Mars Exploration Rovers to Survive the Extreme Thermal Environments


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    IMAP 2nd Advanced Technology Workshop on Reliability of Advanced Packages and Devices in Extreme Cold Environments ; 2007 ; Arcadia, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2007-02-27


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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