On 13:37:28 Dec 31, Steve Shockley wrote: > Girish Venkatachalam wrote: >> Correct me if I am wrong but I believe it was this that saved the Mars >> lander from total disaster a few years ago. I heard it was due to the >> brilliant idea of some Indian professor. I don't remember much about it >> now. > > It's somewhat more difficult to access the hardware on the Mars lander, let > alone replace parts.
Read this and 'CTRF-F' for watchdog. http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Mars_Pathfinder/Mars_Pathfinder.html If I remember right this made a lot of headlines few years ago. This is not on topic but other threads don't look any good anyway.;) -Girish
