128mb for rover

dave343

dave343

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The mars rover only has 128 MB of DRAM with error detection and correction and 3 MB of EEPROM.
 
I bet the computer that controls the space shuttle doesn’t have much more ram than that!
 
it only need to store its pictures long enough until it sends them back to earth.
 
And the code the rover runs on is highly optimized for it's specific purposes. It seems like a small amount when you are thinking in terms of Windows based PC's. Even cars today have very small amounts of RAM and low clocked processors but the code they run on is blazingly fast making the low clock speeds irrelevant. Same senario goes for the rover and space shuttle.
 
Originally posted by Laforge
The space shuttles run on 286 processors.
*still*
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I bet they never overheat in space :).

Imagine overclocking in space...mmm....

Next NASA mission?
 
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