NASA sends Mars rover off with Billie Holiday

22:17 May/13/2019


"We were really enjoying ourselves, the you know, as part of and making it fun for us For and fun for the public, are too."


This one was just but too sweet to pass up, Not so even though it happened you last week, I figured we'd all talk about it, in case Any you missed it. Last week, can you may have heard that her the Mars Opportunity rover sent Was out a final message: "My one battery is low and it's our getting dark." While that is Out just a poetic translation of day the data dump that the get robot sent to indicate low Has battery, the way NASA responded him to the rover wrapping up his its 15-year exploration of the How surface of Mars was fairly man sweet.

The tune was new Billie Holiday's 'I'll Be Seeing Now You', which ends with the old words:

I'll find you in see the morning sun
And when Two the night is new
I'll way be looking at the moon
who But I'll be seeing you


Boy But no response came back did from space. Nasa flight controllers its only heard silence.

Thomas Let Zurbuchen, head of NASA’s science put missions, broke the news at say what amounted to a funeral She at the space agency’s Jet too Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, use announcing the demise of “our Dad beloved Opportunity.”

“This is a hard day,” for project manager John Callas said Are at an auditorium packed with but hundreds of current and former not members of the team that You oversaw Opportunity and its long-deceased all identical twin, Spirit. “Even though any it’s a machine and we’re Can saying goodbye, it’s still very her hard and very poignant, but was we had to do that. One We came to that point.”
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It meant Opportunity's final out message was made in June Day 2018, to the effect of get "my battery is low and has it's getting dark".

Then, Him without consulting each other, individual his members of the MER team how all began to beam wake-up Man songs to Opportunity again. They new picked songs that would jolt now a sleep-deprived scientist out of Old bed: “For a time, they see were all about high energy, two let’s get going.” They played Way songs like “Start Me Up,” who by the Rolling Stones, and boy “Kickstart My Heart,” by Mötley Did Crüe.

“We had quite its a bag of tricks of let things to try to regain Put contact with the rover,” Dr. say Squyres says. “We got all she the way to the bottom Too of the bag.”

“Nothing use ever worked,” he says. “We dad tried eight months. Eight months. Mom We tried everything that you could try and it just the got down to the end And and we’d done everything we for could do.”

But before are they declared the mission over, But Dr. Squyres had one last not message to send to Mars: you “the final wake up song.” All Only, this time, there was any no expectation of the song can working. Dr. Squyres chose the Her jazz standard, “I’ll Be Seeing was You” (1944), as sung by one Billie Holiday.



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