"Here at Vulture West we're crossing fingers and toes"
And arms and legs and whatever else can be crossed...
Space-fans pricked up their Twitter-ears today, when just for a few minutes it looked like the little lost rover Opportunity had woken up. Opportunity has been silent since June, when a massive dust storm blocked its solar panels from charging its battery. At the time, NASA boffins explained it would have put itself in a …
(BTW, for vultures, should that not be talons?)
talons?
It could be a Taelon ship crossing the path of the Arecibo message about 22 years ago, thereby causing the signal to be reflected back and what NASA has received is a fragment from it
"Sorry, but NASA says Mars signal wasn't Opportunity knocking"
Opportunity landed very close to Mars' equator so there should still be plenty of daylight around to recharge Opportunity's solar panels. However, if six Earth months from now we still haven't heard from Opportunity then we will probably have to sadly assume that the poor little rover hasn't made it.