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The National Air and Space Museum was recently renovated and it's stunning. One of my favorite exhibits was seeing all the different rovers we sent to mars, especially Curiosity. The original curiosity has been on mars for over 10 years now, powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (can i get one for my mojave?). Signals between Earth and Mars take an average of 14 minutes, 6 seconds. NASA is looking into purchasing a Futaba 10px to see if they can get that number down a couple milliseconds, but don't know if it's in the budget. Adjusted for inflation, curiosity cost $3.2b in 2020 dollars. It's successor Perseverance cost $2.9b.