Suara.com – Despite being the most advanced machine to land on the Red Planet today, NASA’s new explorer, Perseverance Managed PowerPC750, The single-core processor with six million transistors used in iMac since 1998.
This is the same type of processor NASA used on the previous Curiosity Rover.
NASA could actually use a high-end chip like the $ 500 Intel Core i9-10900K CPU, which was diligently budgeted for up to $ 2.7 billion.
However, according to the new scientist, there is something wrong with the sophisticated chip being damaged by environmental conditions on Mars.
Also read:
NASA named the site after persistence landed from the name of the author, here’s why
This is because the Martian atmosphere has far less protection from harmful radiation and charged particles than the Earth’s atmosphere.
A bad burst of radiation can damage modern processor sensor electronics and cause the more complex the chip, the more errors.
Also, because Mars is so far away, NASA won’t be able to replace the processor if something goes wrong.
Due to these conditions, persistence actually has two computational modules, one of which is used as a backup in case of an error.
To make the system more durable, the industrious PowerPC 750 chip differs slightly from the traditional Imax in use.
Also read:
Monitor the temperature of Mars and start using the air sensor diligently
Technically, it’s the RAD750 chip, which is a special radiation-resistant variant and costs around US $ 200,000.
–
