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Opportunity knocked? Rover survives Martian winter, may not survive budget cuts

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"But I wonder if it's doable for less than a years running costs?"

Nice idea, but I would guess that the hardware isn't up to running software of the sophistication that would be required for that. Space hardware is usually a number of generations behind your average PC at launch and this was launched in 2003 so its hardware & CPU (too lazy to google) is probably circa mid 90s at best.

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