Timeline for Survival of laptops in Mars' environment
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| Oct 15, 2015 at 0:10 | comment | added | Aron | This answer is completely wrong. It was the pressure that broke the LCD. The Liquid in the LCD boils off in the Martian atmosphere. | |
| Oct 1, 2015 at 19:44 | comment | added | Shamshiel | Pressure matters, not just temperature. Water will boil at 1C if the pressure is low enough, as it is on Mars. | |
| Sep 9, 2015 at 8:36 | vote | accept | Motti | ||
| Sep 9, 2015 at 7:46 | comment | added | Dreamwalker | @Motti Yes. I mentioned in the question storage temperature is lower than the operating temperature. I am going to read the book to see if I can improve this answer, just in the middle of Xeelee at the moment though. | |
| Aug 1, 2015 at 18:45 | comment | added | Motti | Would the fact that the computers were (probably) off explain their survival? | |
| Jul 31, 2015 at 7:54 | comment | added | Dreamwalker | @DougB I notice they have them closed in the low temperature picture doesn't mean the machine isn't operating though. | |
| Jul 31, 2015 at 7:49 | comment | added | Dreamwalker | @Mr.Mascaro yeah they certainly are more versatile but I guess if they used them they would have to alter the story :) | |
| Jul 30, 2015 at 18:20 | comment | added | Mr. Mascaro | Some OLED displays can operate down to -40°C. | |
| Jul 30, 2015 at 14:45 | comment | added | Doug B | Note that militarized laptops have greater temperature tolerances (for example lenovo.com/news/us/en/2009/02/rugged_computing.html). It's possible that the NASA laptops have even greater tolerances, but Watney's first laptop was a lemon. | |
| Jul 30, 2015 at 13:57 | comment | added | Motti | Thanks for your answer, in the book it's stated that the astronauts had their own laptops, I assumed that they were all the same model issued by NASA (everything else is interchangeable and standardised). | |
| Jul 30, 2015 at 13:49 | history | answered | Dreamwalker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |