Curiosity’s 13 Years of Software Hacks Keeps It Alive on Mars

Skimmed through the interview at a brisk space, but it was interesting to see how they’ve managed to keep this ‘thing’ running in an age obsessed with automatic updates.

I’m quite obessed with the energy source, I know it’s solar powered, but the transmission and monitoring of its systems is also interesting. I want to know what protocols they use to send data to and fro Mars and how long it takes. Me and ChatGPT/DeepSeek are going to have a long conversation about this soon :slight_smile:

Edit: No need for LLMs yet, here are the details to both Curiosity and Perseverance rovers :smiley: