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history of mars rovers

history of mars rovers published on 2 Comments on history of mars rovers

great scott! it’s a 5-panel comic! is that even legal?

the history of mars rovers is way too interesting to compress into one tiny comic strip (and yet i tried anyway), so i hope you all go on a wikipedia/youtube binge to learn all the juicy details. the fact that we humans have put multiple science vehicles on another freaking planet is absolutely ridiculous, and i hope we can eventually one-up ourselves and land actual people on mars, ideally some time within the next 2-3 million years. [glares at nasa]

also, i’m officially sick of drawing rovers now. they are actually the worst.

Transcripts

sedna: the first rovers on mars were a couple of tiny russian test machines.
text: prop-m (mars 2, 1971) crash-landed
text: prop-m (mars 3, 1971) failed instantly
sedna: …they didn’t last long.

sedna: the first one to actually work was this little guy.
text: sojourner (pathfinder, 1977)
sedna: he lasted 83 days.

sedna: next were the twins spirit and oppy, who were way bigger and lasted for years.
text: spirit (2004-2010)
text: opportunity 2004-2018)

sedna: then came curiosity and percy, both the size of a small car and powered by radiation instead of solar panels.
text: curiosity (2012-)
text: perseverance (2021-)

sedna: and this page, i’m keeping blank for you, ako!

Webcomic Transcript Authorsthomas

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