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Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity
''Opportunity'', also known as MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover – B) or MER-1, is a robotic Robotics is an interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist human ... rover (space exploration), rover that was active on Mars from 2004 until 2018. ''Opportunity'' was operational on Mars for Timekeeping on Mars#Sols, sols (). Launched on July 7, 2003, as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover program, it landed in Meridiani Planum on January 25, 2004, three weeks after its twin, ''Spirit (rover), Spirit'' (MER-A), touched down on the other side of the planet. With a planned 90-Sol (day on Mars), sol duration of activity (slightly less than 92.5 Earth days), ''Spirit'' functioned until it got stuck in 2009 and ceased communications in 2010, while ''Opportunity'' was able to stay operational for sols after l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duck Dodgers
Duck Dodgers is the metafictional star of a series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros., featuring Daffy Duck in the role of a science fiction hero. He first appeared in the 1953 cartoon short ''Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century'', directed by Chuck Jones as a spoof of the popular '' Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'' and ''Flash Gordon'' science fiction serials of the 1930s, casting the brash, egomaniacal Daffy Duck as the hero of the story. it is available in the DVD compilation '' Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1'', and is also available for download on the iTunes Store in the Daffy Duck collection. The plot of the cartoon involves Duck Dodgers' search for the rare element Illudium Phosdex, "the shaving cream atom", the only remaining supply of which is on the mysterious "Planet X". Just after Dodgers has claimed Planet X in the name of the Earth, Marvin the Martian lands on the same planet and claims it in the name of Mars. The stage is set for a battle of wits, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
